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Innocence to experience—to emotional blackmale
After the gorilla’s existentialist period of Camus-like despair, I suppose that the next episode will be devoted to his religious conversion: a trainer comforts the gorilla by convincing him that he doesn’t really die—but nevertheless might go to hell if he … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, death, eternal life, existentialism, gorillas, life, life after death, philosophy, psychology, the sinner's prayer, William Blake
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Christopher Hitchens: It is the height of immorality to lie to people about what you really know about death
That is, nothing. I agree with Christopher Hitchens that religion is shameless in its manipulations of death fears via the carrot and stick of heaven and hell: it really is a moral outrage. One should never claim more about death—or anything, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, death, God, Hamlet, heaven, hell, life after death, NDEs, near-death experiences, religion, Shakespeare
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Denyse O’Leary on the Signal and the Set (the Mind and the Brain)
I see that Denyse O’Leary, the co-author of The Spiritual Brain (a book I recommend), has a blog. Here she is offering a non-reductionist analogy for the mind’s relationship to the brain (it might be like a television signal in relation to a television set): Non-materialist neuroscience, … Continue reading
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Tagged body, dualism, eternal life, free will, immortality, intimations of immortality, life after death, mind, philosophy, televisions, the soul, Wordsworth
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