Thomas Metzinger (born 12 March 1958) is a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus of theoretical philosophy at the University of Mainz.

He has argued in his book Being No One that the phenomenal self is a mental construct created by the brain.

Metzinger studied philosophy, ethnology, and theology at Goethe University Frankfurt.

[2] Metzinger cofounded in 1994 of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness,[3][4] of which he has been a board and committee member, and was the 2010 president.

[14] From 2018 to 2020, Metzinger worked as a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence.