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We re used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In ´The Ego Tunnel,´ philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a ´self´ exists. The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brainan internal image, but one we cannot experience ´as´ an image. Everything we experience is a virtual self in a virtual reality.
But if the self is not real, why and how did it evolve? How does the brain construct it? Do we still have souls, free will, personal autonomy, or moral accountability? In a time when the science of cognition is becoming as controversial as evolution, ´The Ego Tunnel´ provides a stunningly original take on the mystery of the mind.´



Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Consciousness Problem -- 1. The Appearance of a World -- 2. A Tour of the Tunnel -- The Unity of Consciousness -- Part 2. Ideas and Discoveries -- 3. Out of the Body and into the Mind: Body Image, Out-of-Body Experiences, and the Virtual Self -- 4. From Ownership to Agency to Free Will -- 5. Philosophical Psychonautics: What can we Learn from Lucid Dreaming? -- Dreaming -- 6. The Empathic Ego -- The Shared Manifold -- Part 3. The Consciousness Revolution -- 7. Artificial Ego Machines -- 8. Consciousness Technologies and the Image of Humankind -- 9. A New Kind of Ethics -- Notes -- Index.