Being No One: The Self-model Theory of Subjectivity
Being No One: The Self-model Theory of Subjectivity by Thomas Metzinger
English | 11 Feb. 2003 | ISBN: 0262134179 | 714 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | 11 Feb. 2003 | ISBN: 0262134179 | 714 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is.