One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the br….

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective..

Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tun….

The self is not a thing, but a process..

Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human bein….

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself..

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more..

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all..

Virtual reality is the representation of possible worlds and possible selves, with the aim of making them appear as real as possible - ideally, by cr….

As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take ti….

Retribution is really a stone age concept..

The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and to oneself, I th….

In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "direc….

For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distin….

Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies i….

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to ….

As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather is ….

When you are simply observing your breath, you are perceiving an automatically unfolding process in your body. By contrast, when you are observing yo….

As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disc….

The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it..

I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all together….