Splendor and misery of self-models: Conceptual and empirical issues regarding consciousness and self-consciousness
Thomas Metzinger 
Interviewed by Jakub Limanowski & Raphael Milliere
keywords
self-model, self-consciousness, artificial intelligence, mental representation, active inference, psychopathology, drug-induced states

doi: 10.34700/epgh-at59
Abstract
In this interview, Thomas Metzinger discusses the value of empirical evidence for philosophy of mind, the indeterminacy of the sense of self, the notion of phenomenal transparency, the disagreement between competing theories of mental representation, ethical issues regarding the development of artificial consciousness, and the relevance of so-called 'first-person methods' in cognitive science.