Thomas Metzinger Quotes

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As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from your sensory organs along the multiple neuronal pathways in your body to your brain, and they take time to be processed and transformed into objects, scenes, and complex situations. So, strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past.

Thomas Metzinger

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

Thomas Metzinger

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.

Thomas Metzinger