Thomas Metzinger - Being No One

After yesterday's Thomas Metzinger post, a reader pointed me to this video in which he explicates his vision of a representationalist theory of phenomenal self-consciousness. He is introduced by the neuroscientist Alva Noe, someone I quite like.

Metzinger's basic premise is that there is ultimately no "subject," or as a Buddhist might understand it, no self.

Thomas Metzinger is the Director of the Philosophy Group at the Department of Philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. His research focuses on philosophy of mind, especially on consciousness and the nature of the self. In this lecture he develops a representationalist theory of phenomenal self-consciousness. A Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul presented by the UC Berkeley Graudate Council. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures [2/2005]

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