For Marisa Lux
Become who you are!

First published in German as Ich ist nicht Gehirn. Philosophie des Geistes für das 21. Jahrhundert © by Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin. Published in 2015 by Ullstein Verlag.

This English edition © Polity Press, 2017

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1478-6

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gabriel, Markus, 1980- author.
Title: I am not a brain : philosophy of mind for the 21st century / Markus Gabriel.
Description: Malden, MA : Polity, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017010106 (print) | LCCN 2017030527 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509514779 (Mobi) | ISBN 9781509514786 (Epub) | ISBN 9781509514755 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Philosophy of mind. | Consciousness.
Classification: LCC BD418.3 (ebook) | LCC BD418.3 .G33 2017 (print) | DOC 128/.2--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017010106

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… as we remind ourselves that no age has been more skillful than our own in producing myths of the understanding, an age that produces myths and at the same time wants to eradicate all myths.