The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Author: Thomas Metzinger

Publisher: Basic Books (2009)

Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages

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A standing context-loop is created. And this may be a deeper insight into the essence of the world-creating function of conscious experience: Conscious information seems to be integrated and unified precisely because the underlying physical process is mapped back onto itself and becomes its own context.
Page 44:
Thus, the answer to the question of why our conscious representations of the world are transparent—why we are constitutionally unable to recognize them as representations—and why this proved a viable, stable, strategy for survival and procreation probably is that the formation of metarepresentations would not have been cost-efficient: It would have been too expensive in terms of the additional sugar we would have had to find in our environment