If you get an electric tingle running up your leg when you hear someone mention The Mary Problem or utter words like präreflexiverselbstvertrautheit, this is for you: philosopher Thomas Metzinger talking about his new book The Ego Tunnel. Bottom line: You don’t exist.

The lecture’s on YouTube in six bite-sized parts:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

[Thanks to Andy Ross for this.]

WARNING 1: The whole thing is nearly an hour long.

WARNING 2: It takes place at Berkeley, and there’s some Berkeley-ish blather about “community” in the introduction by Berkeley philosopher Alva Noë, whose name looks as though it ought to be an anagram of something, but really isn’t. The blather can be ignored; the philosophy is meaty.