The many Corner readers who had something to say about those video clips of philosopher Thomas Metzinger strutting his stuff, might be interested in his new book, The Ego Tunnel. I read it last night & put up a note about it on Secular Right.

I did not know until reading The Ego Tunnel that there is a psychiatric disorder in which the patient may believe he doesn’t exist. It sometimes seems that the Republican Party suffers from a sort of collective version.

And back on the personal level, it occurs to me that the editors of the DSM might consider including a new diagnosis:

Ego Tunnel Syndrome: Caused by spending so much time at the computer, you forget other people exist.