What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features of the human conscio….

I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective….

Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt to c….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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..

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

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

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….

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

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..

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

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

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 ….

Retribution is really a stone age concept..

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….