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LIT-1944: The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

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StatusUnavailable — registered 2026-11-01 at the owner's request, not read. No lawful open full text was reached, and the book is in copyright with Basic Books. OpenAlex has no record of the book. Google Books shows no viewable edition. The Internet Archive's copy (egotunnelscience0000metz) is in its print-disabled and lending collections, which require a borrowing account, so it is not an open copy. No author-posted copy was found. The theory it popularises is read in the record in LIT-450 and LIT-568, and its later development in LIT-1943. It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied, not on merit.
Tagsself, consciousness

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Metzinger, T. (2009). The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-04567-9.

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Registered, not read.

  • The popular book of the self-model theory read in the record in LIT-450 and LIT-568, whose full statement is Being No One (LIT-467, Unavailable).

Standing in the record

Filed at the owner’s request on 2026-11-01 with Metzinger’s later work. Nothing in the record rests on it. Metzinger 2024 (LIT-1943) cites the book for the idea of a “Bewusstseinskultur”, a culture of consciousness, and points to its extended German version of 2014 (epilogue, note 2). The book also introduces the “Ego Tunnel” image, which the 2024 book reuses (pp. 369, 375).

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