Theo Todman's Web Page - Paper Abstracts

Notes

• This is an important paper, though (despite its comparative length for an Aeon paper) it is basically a brief introduction to Metzinger’s nihilist theories of the Self, as described in his books and papers: see Thomas Metzinger for those in my collection.
• I intend to write up this paper in due course, but here simply note various other papers referenced that I had, or have, obtained:-
  • Metzinger - The Problem of Mental Action, also Metzinger - The Problem of Mental Action
  • Metzinger - The myth of cognitive agency: subpersonal thinking as a cyclically recurring loss of mental autonomy,
  • "Birhane (Abeba) - Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’",
  • Metzinger - M-Autonomy,
  • Metzinger - Self models,
  • Aeon: McNamara - Dreams and revelations,
  • "Frith (Christopher D.) - Our illusory sense of agency has a deeply important social purpose",
  • "Seth (Anil Kumar) - The real problem",
  • "Friston (Karl) - The mathematics of mind-time",
  • "Gerrans (Philip) & Letheby (Chris) - Model hallucinations",
  • Metzinger - Benevolent Artificial Anti-Natalism,
  • "Rini (Regina) - Raising good robots", and
  • Hasenkamp - Catching the wandering mind: Meditation as a window into spontaneous thought.
• Items that are weblinks have been downloaded and await importation into my database.