Metzinger issues:

1.) The central claim of BNO is that the self does not exist as a discrete entity, but rather
as a reresentational content. !The content of a self"model that cannot be recognized as a
model by the system that is using it.# The self is not a thing, it is a rocess. !$e are
systems that constantly confuse themsel%es &ith the contents of their '(Ms.#
")o& is this claim going to affect our ro*ect+
Metzinger doesn,t really seem %ery concerned &ith ho& a model of the &orld is
constructed, excet insofar as it is the basis for the model of the self. )e is out to sho&
that there is no self, that the self is merely a model. )e ta-es it for granted that the &orld
is a model. )e,s not really gi%ing us an interesting &ay to car%e u reality as inner and
outer, or &orld and self. )e,s mostly gi%ing us interesting &ays to understand the self"
model.
..) Mineness
a. /e%iations
i. My mental0bodily henomena do not aear as mine, and are
attributed to other entities in my en%ironment. .lternately,
en%ironmental henomena aear as mine.
ii. 'ercetions that seemed both real and in%oluntary for &hich
there &as no external source.
iii. 1oices heard, hallucinations and dreams are my thoughts &hich
2 don,t recognize as mine
i%. (ome of Tanya 3uhrmann,s research goes here
%. (ome -inds of ossession0mediumshi go here: !The %oice is
not mine,# !The bodily mo%ements are not mine,# no brea- in
autobiograhical unity.
%i. 'rohecy: the &isdom is not mine
%ii. Tongues: the language and -no&ledge are not mine
%iii. .lien limb syndrome 4limb sho&s intentionality)
B.) (elfhood: Transarent, global a%ailability of self"related information
a. /e%iations
i. 2 lose my re"reflexi%e intimacy &ith myself 4in some &ays
and to some degree). 2 lose global access to my self"related
information.
ii. Neglect
iii. (ome -inds of ossession go here: comlete dissociation:
disrution of autobiograhical continuity. !That &as not 2.#
i%. )ealing, exorcism and deli%erance are means of restoring a
fractured, slit or &ea-ened selfhood.
%. 5ites of assage are ritualized &ays of managing selfhood.
%i. Mediation 4Buddhist) can lead to annihilation of selfhood..
something different from *ust the annihilation of the
ersecti%e+
%ii. (lee aralysis: una%ailability of information about the state of
the body.
%iii. 'aralysis, amnesia, syndrome &here atient does not recognize
limb as o&n.
6.) 'ersecti%e: (ingle, coherent, temorally stable model of reality centered on a
single, coherent and temorally stable henomenal sub*ect.
a. /e%iations
i. My reality model and self model become numerically and
temorally 4and satially+) incoherent and unstable. 7&e must
be careful not to get traed in the %isual metahor here, this is
phenomenal perspective: the ersecti%e &hich 2 ha%e on the
basis of my bodily caacities and osture in general.8
ii. Out of body exeriences
iii. (imultaneously existing in multile laces and0or times
i%. .nnihilation of the terms of the relationshi 4reality or
henomenal self). Mysticism, meditation.
%. 9nification of the terms. Mysticism.
%i. :(', fore-no&ledge, d;*< %u
%ii. 'hantom limb
%iii. :xceeding one,s caacities in an extraordinary &ay,
extraordinary de%iation of the !2 can.#