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honorary doctorate in Literature from the University of Lancaster.
In November of that same year, he was presented with the Jam-
nalal Bajaj International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values
Abroad. He continues to teach and run workshops on reverential
ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity and is a much
sought-after speaker both in the UK and abroad.

RAYMOND MARTIN is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Uni-
versity of Maryland College Park. He is also Research Professor of
Philosophy at Union College in Schenectady, New York. His spe-
cial areas of research interest have been in the Philosophy of His-
torical Methodology and in the Philosophy of Self and Personal
Identity. He is the author, with John Barresi, of The Rise and Fall of
Soul and Self.

THOMAS METZINGER (born in1958 in Frankfurt am Main, Ger-
many) was Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Johannes
Gutenberg-Universität Mainz until 2019. He is past president of
the German Cognitive Science Society (2005–07) and of the Asso-
ciation for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (2009–11). In the
English language, he has edited two collections on consciousness—
Conscious Experience, and Neural Correlates of Consciousness. He
has also published one major scientific monograph, Being No One:
The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity. In 2009, he published a pop-
ular book, which addresses a wider audience and discusses the eth-
ical, cultural and social consequences of consciousness research,
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self.
Important recent Open Access collections (2015) are Open MIND
and Philosophy and Predictive Processing. In 2018 Metzinger was
appointed a member of the European Commission’s High-Level
Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. Apart from his in-depth

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