Sunday, October 25, 2009

A Possibility as a Reality

“The human self-model is just a virtual model. It depicts a possibility as a reality. It’s just the best hypothesis the system has about its own current state.”

~ Thomas Metzinger, director of the theoretical philosophy group at the department of philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

A Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul presented by the UC Berkeley Graudate Council. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures (2/14/2005)

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