"One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Thomas Metzinger

#Tunnels Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Ego Quotes

“If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich. Authority may (and may not) make all men equally rich in purse; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life best worth living.”
“I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.”
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.”
“I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.”
“Iâ€™m accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows”
“No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word of God. And strangely, that's enough. God's Word is enough for millions of believers who gather in house churches... Jungles... Rainforests, and middle-eastern cities. But is his Word enough for us?”
“Man is programmed to find the programmer.”

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