The conscious self is a phenomenal self-model (PSM)
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"
Cognition is figure; the substrates that make it possible are ground.
The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth
The paper synthesizes Clark's extended mind, Metzinger's PSM, and McLuhan's autoamputation.
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"
Introspection is not the discovery of a pre-existing inner content
The medium of cognition shapes what cognition can take itself to be
Husserl's epoché anticipates the structure of Metzinger's self-model.
The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth
Sartre's distinction between pre-reflective and reflective consciousness anticipates Metzinger's self-model.
PSM integrates bodily, emotional, perceptual, mnemic, volitional, and cognitive contents
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"
Metzinger argues that the experiential payoff of contemplative practice is to render the self-model opaque.
The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth
Dennett's heterophenomenology is a third-person alternative to Metzinger's self-model.
The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth
Cognition is figure; the substrates that make it possible are ground
The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth
the self is the content of a self-model that cannot be recognized as a model by the system using it
The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Meth
These are things people say about Thomas Metzinger that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.
"The contemplative traditions claim to deliver making the self-model opaque in Metzinger's sense, recognizing the Ego as a transparent mental image."
"psychoactive substances write directly into the PSM"
"The contemplative move and the phenomenological move are formally the same move."
"the contemplative traditions claim to deliver making the self-model opaque"
"the self-model becomes dependent on exogenous chemical "writes""
"phenomenal transparency is a special kind of darkness"