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To be or not to be: The self as illusion
Author(s) -
Tippett Krista,
Metzinger Thomas,
Thompson Evan,
van Lommel Pim
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06181.x
Subject(s) - illusion , join (topology) , art history , psychology , psychoanalysis , sociology , media studies , art , neuroscience , mathematics , combinatorics
Moderated by Krista Tippett, creator and host of America Public Media's On Being , philosophers Thomas Metzinger (University of Mainz, Germany) and Evan Thompson (University of Toronto) join cardiologist and expert on near‐death experiences Pim van Lommel (Hospital Rijnstate, the Netherlands) to examine recent developments in neuroscience and philosophy that shed light on whether our conscious experience of a unified self is reality or illusion. The following is an edited transcript of the discussion that occurred December 7, 2010, 6:00–7:30 PM, at the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City.