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. He is also the author of popular book The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self.
In the following 2005 lecture Metzinger develops a representationalist theory of phenomenal self-consciousness. Metzinger's basic premise is that there is ultimately no "subject," or as a Buddhist might understand it, no self.
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