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Watch the full video on YT:
https://youtu.be/UWw8xMDG8P4

In this video I give a brief introduction into Thomas Metzingers book “The Ego Tunnel”. We will do a chapter by chapter analysis in upcoming episodes.

00:00 Intro
00:30 Background Data
01:30 In a Nutshell
03:40 Central Concepts
04:10 The Ego Tunnel
04:51 The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (SMT)
05:25 Transparency and Opacity
06:11 Phenomenal Selfhood and the Ego
06:45 Wrapping up

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Get the book:

📙The Ego Tunnel
https://bookshop.org/a/98861/9780465020690

Image credits: Freepik: Stockking, vwalakte, freepik, gpointstudio, vecstock

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You can find my take on things summarised in a book I wrote in 2023:

🇺🇸Book order: The end of the I
https://www.bod.ch/buchshop/the-end-of-the-i-elena-holzheu-9783757886332

🇩🇪Book order: Das Ende des Ichs
https://www.bod.ch/buchshop/das-ende-des-ichs-elena-holzheu-9783757883287

If you are interested in Autism, check out my collection of poems from 2024:

📙#actuallyautistic - Living with Autism – A Poetic Exploration of the Spectrum
https://buchshop.bod.ch/actuallyautistic-elena-holzheu-9783759735621
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