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The Expansion of Mind

Jeff Carreira January 8, 2014Philosophy

In the 18th century Immanuel Kant articulated a magnificent vision of how the human mind keeps us contained within a single worldview. Kant realized that we don’t see the world as it is. Instead we …

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Immanuel KantSpeculative RealismThomas Metzinger

Cartesian Dualism and Brains In Vats

Jeff Carreira April 6, 2012Philosophy

If you could put your brain in a nutrient bath so that it could keep on functioning outside of your body what would it (or would it still be you) experience? Would it still have …

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Alva NoeThomas MetzingerWilliam James

The Ego Tunnel and the Nature of Reality

Jeff Carreira March 29, 2012Philosophy

Thomas Metzinger’s new book The Ego Tunnel weaves research in out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming, phantom limbs and other extraordinary human occurrences with leading edge neuroscience to create a convincing picture of how neural activity constantly …

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Rene DescartesThomas MetzingerWilliam James

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