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…

- Thomas Metzinger

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

- Thomas Metzinger

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…

- Thomas Metzinger

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…

- Thomas Metzinger

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…

- Thomas Metzinger

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

- Thomas Metzinger

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

- Thomas Metzinger

Retribution is really a stone age concept.

- Thomas Metzinger

A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a muc…

- Thomas Metzinger