Thomas Metzinger

About the Author

Thomas Metzinger was director of the Theoretical Philosophy Group at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. From 2018 to 2020 Metzinger worked as a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. In 2021 he was awarded the Pufendorf Medal, and in 2022 he was elected into the German National Academy of Science. He has written and edited several books, among them Bewusstseinskultur, The Elephant and the Blind, Being No One, Conscious Experience, and Neural Correlates of Consciousness. He lives in Germany.