Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do.
Thomas MetzingerSubjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.
Thomas MetzingerConsciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.
Thomas MetzingerSomeone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.
Thomas Metzinger