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• Archive: We’re used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are.
• In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzinger claims otherwise: No such thing as a self exists.
• The conscious self is the content of a model created by our brain—an internal image, but one we cannot experience as an image.
• Everything we experience is “a virtual self in a virtual reality.”But if the self is not “real,” why and how did it evolve?
• How does the brain construct it?