The Ego Tunnel

Library Journal “Metzinger’s intended audience is the lay reader, and he does a superb job of presenting his theory and introducing philosophical issues related to consciousness.” Booklist “Groundbreaking. This sophisticated understanding of the brain as an ego machine accounts remarkably well for the lived experience of being someone, a someone who transforms a bombardment of stimuli into a seamless present while still engaging in off-line planning for the future and reflection on the past.” Bookforum “Metzinger is crisp in his arguments and has a keen appreciation of essential ideas.”

Thomas Metzinger directs the Theoretical Philosophy Group at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Study. He is the former president of the German Cognitive Science Society and one of the founders of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. He has written and edited eight books, among them Being No One and Conscious Experience and Neural Correlates of Consciousness. He lives in Germany.