{"id":20969,"date":"2024-06-26T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otte1.org\/?p=20969"},"modified":"2024-06-26T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:20:03","slug":"our-self-does-not-exist-my-ego-is-an-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/news\/our-self-does-not-exist-my-ego-is-an-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Our &#8220;Self&#8221; does not Exist &#8211; my Ego is an Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Saturday 29 June, at 12:30 we will be discussing this thesis by philosopher and consciousness researcher Thomas Metzinger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the thesis of philosopher and consciousness researcher Thomas Metzinger. In his bestseller &#8220;The Ego Tunnel&#8221;, he explains that a person&#8217;s self-image is an internal matter that is not congruent with reality. The self is a constructed entity, a hallucination of the mind.<\/p>\n<p>The proliferation of deepfake technologies, which have advanced from the high-tech to the consumer level, further complicates the relationship between physical appearance and personal identity. Applications such as Mug Life have enabled consumers to make other people&#8217;s faces say what they want &#8211; Elvis Presley ends up being little more than a digital artistic mouthpiece.<\/p>\n<p>Video artist Anna Ehrenstein&#8217;s decision to undergo a real nose job serves as an opportunity to examine social attitudes towards authenticity and self-presentation. While neuroscience has yet to reach a consensus on what the self or consciousness is, or whether it exists at all, the reactions to Ehrenstein&#8217;s surgical alteration reveal a societal insistence on a fixed notion of the authentic self.<\/p>\n<p>On the screen, Ehrenstein performs a series of tasks and exercises that, according to various online instructions, are intended to harmonise her surgically altered face with a truer self. In a collage with the fake film footage, overlaid with quotes from Metzinger&#8217;s &#8220;The Ego Tunnel&#8221;, the artist decimates the authenticity of the self in favour of a more malleable version.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the content-related considerations, we also deal with practical questions:<br \/>\n&#8211; Who guarantees the authenticity of the video?<br \/>\n&#8211; What does the video cost?<br \/>\n&#8211; How should it be presented?<br \/>\n&#8211; Can a collector resell the video?<br \/>\n&#8211; Is a copy of the video identical to the original?<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday 29 June, at 12:30 we will be discussing this thesis by philosopher and consciousness researcher Thomas Metzinger. This is the thesis of philosopher and consciousness researcher Thomas Metzinger. In his bestseller &#8220;The Ego Tunnel&#8221;, he explains that a person&#8217;s self-image is an internal matter that is not congruent with reality. The self is","protected":false},"author":1632,"featured_media":20967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post post-type-post post-view- post-scope-","status-publish","post-format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","clear"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20969"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20981,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20969\/revisions\/20981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}