Joc mentioned Tunnels today and conquered my mind. Tunnels are very interesting, psychically, psychology, metaphorically ...
Quite interesting:
THE EGO TUNNEL combines the findings of neuroscience with the philosophy of mind to
find a new and fascinating answer to that age-old question, "Who are we?" The "phenomenal
self," or Ego, according to Metzinger, is created by our conscious mind-brain in order to make
sense of the world around us. Drawing on a series of experiments in neuroscience, virtual reality
and robotics, and his own research into the phenomenon of the out-of-body experience,
Metzinger shows how the brain constructs our reality. What we see and hear, what we feel,
smell and taste, he argues, is only a tiny fraction of what actually exists; our conscious
perception of the world is just a shadow of the rich physical reality around us. Conscious
experience, then, is not so much an image of reality as a tunnel through reality – Metzinger's
"Ego Tunnel."
'ego tunnel', it's a funny expression. I totally agree with this article but it really saying anything new? except perhaps it symbolizes what we probably know in a very visual way, which is perhaps interesting to us. Perhaps we could expand on the idea of the tunnel?
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