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.

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.

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

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

For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self.

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.

Dolphins frequently leap above the water surface. One reason for this behaviour could be that, when travelling longer distances, jumping can save the dolphins energy as there is less friction while in the air.