# The Ego Tunnel  ## Metadata - Author: [[Thomas Metzinger]] - Full Title: The Ego Tunnel - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The modern philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience are working together to challenge the concept of the self. Conscious experience is an internal construct and a selective way of representing information. The process of conscious experience is like a tunnel through reality and is a form of conscious representational content. Conscious experience is a large-scale, unified phenomenon emerging from a myriad of physical micro-events. To form a successful theory of consciousness, we must match first-person phenomenal content to third-person brain content. The sense of ownership and incorporating visual images into the bodily self-model are fundamental to the feeling of being someone. - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/45423001 - Source File: The Ego Tunnel the science of the mind and the myth of the self by Thomas Metzinger.pdf ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > One of the neuroscientists I am proud to collaborate with is Olaf Blanke, a brilliant young neurologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausannne, who was the first scientist to trigger an OBE by directly stimulating the brain of a patient with an electrode. There are typically two representations of one’s body in these experiences: the visual one (the sight of your own ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j1yfc8f7fe9t9g2mfg3x30r8))