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" The ego tunnel : "
Thomas Metzinger
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BL
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629096
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Metzinger, Thomas,1958-
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| Title & Author
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The ego tunnel : : the science of the mind and the myth of the self /\ Thomas Metzinger
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Basic Books,, c2009
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x, 276 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780465045679 (alk. paper)
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: 0465045677 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Part I: The consciousness problem -- The appearance of a world -- A tour of the tunnel -- The unity of consciousness -- Part II: Ideas and discoveries -- Out of the body and into the mind : body image, out-of-body experiences, and the virtual self -- From ownership to agency to free will -- Philosophical psychonautics : what can we learn from lucid dreaming? -- Dreaming -- The empathic ego -- The shared manifold -- Part III: The consciousness revolution -- Artificial ego machines -- Consciousness technologies and the image of humankind -- A new kind of ethics
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Consciousness
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126
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| LC Classification
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BF311.M47 2009
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BF311.M47 2009
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