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Thomas Metzinger: Is The Self An Illusion? Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood & Epistemic Agent Model

Mind-Body Solution

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I've been looking forward to interviewing you for such a long time. I think the best way to start a podcast with you would be to just go straight into the deep end. Let's define what consciousness is to you and what the self is. So consciousness is a folk psychological umbrella term. Nobody knows what it means. A lot of people like to talk about qualia and 95 percent of them wouldn't be able to say what that is, where it comes from. And there's a persisting problem. There are naturalist philosophers like myself, who think that naturalism is not an ideology, but a research program. That research program consists in reformulating classical philosophical questions about consciousness so

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