Brain, bodily awareness, and the emergence of a conscious self: these entities and their relations are explored by Germanphilosopher and cognitive scientist Metzinger. Extensively working with neuroscientists he has come to the conclusion that, in fact, there is no such thing as a "self" -- that a "self" is simply the content of a model created by our brain - part of a virtual reality we create for ourselves.
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What I would really like to know is this: Can the fundamental insight—the destructive, creative virtue of simplicity—be transposed from the realm of scientific explanation into culture or onto the level of conscious experience? What kind of formal simplicity would make our culture a deeper, more beautiful culture? And what is an elegant mind? 
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THE problem of the self - what it is that makes you you - has exercised philosophers and theologians for millennia. Today it is also a hotly contested scientific question, and the science is confirming what the Buddha, Scottish philosopher David Hume and many other thinkers maintained: that there is no concrete identity at the core of our being, and that our sense of self is an illusion spun from narratives we construct about our lives. NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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"I do not know whether your pleasure is the same as my pleasure." They are not about reviewing something or giving it a score, or even just outline my opinion or thoughts. They go further than that and try to explain how they fit inside my mind because until the day when we can all share each others minds - whenever it will be – I will never use the term review. I will use the term “Transmission” and it will be just that: a Transmission of how something fits into my mind and how it affects my view of reality.
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Upheavals in the outer world are secondary, in the long sweep of history, to inner revolutions. We may be on the verge of such a one.
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