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 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"
"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"