The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.

I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all together pretend that we knew what "first-person perspective" (or "quale" or "consciousness") means, so that we can keep our traditional debates running on forever.

Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves.

You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.

The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.

One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.