“ The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself. Thomas Metzinger
“ Yes, there is an outside world, and yes, there is an objective reality, but in moving through this world, we constantly apply unconscious filter mechanisms, and in doing so, we unknowingly construct o… Thomas Metzinger
“ However, questions arise. Are there people who aren't naive realists, or special situations in which naive realism disappears? My theory—the self-model theory of subjectivity—predicts that as soon as… Thomas Metzinger
