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  • Kalosyni April 11, 2026 at 8:44 AM

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    And the internal experience of being alive is as if we "feel" immortal (and yet we are not).

    Also, it is much more appealing to think that there is something good coming (such as heaven) rather than nothingness.

    But just because we "feel" immortal…

  • Kalosyni April 11, 2026 at 8:35 AM

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    I don’t see how ‘emergence’ plays out in recreating the same exact experience when it is a different time or place. I also don’t see it as a question of “past lives” from a previous time.

    Those reunited “atoms” never caught the same…

  • Kalosyni April 11, 2026 at 8:33 AM

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    Related to this thread, I listened to an interview of David J. Linden a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist on Big Think. He was facing his own cancer death and realized he had difficulty in accepting a world without him in it. After 40 years of his career…

  • Cassius April 11, 2026 at 7:20 AM

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    Related to this thread, I listened to an interview of David J. Linden a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist on Big Think. He was facing his own cancer death and realized he had difficulty in accepting a world without him in it. After 40 years of his career…

  • DaveT April 11, 2026 at 7:03 AM

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    Related to this thread, I listened to an interview of David J. Linden a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist on Big Think. He was facing his own cancer death and realized he had difficulty in accepting a world without him in it. After 40 years of his career…

  • Cassius April 11, 2026 at 6:31 AM

    Replied to the thread M. Dango's personal outline.
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    Thank you for highlighting that quote wbernsys - I missed it when I first read the post.

    Since those two terms seem to be of interest i would appreciate m.dango explaining briefly what those terms mean and why they come up here so as to make the thread…

  • Cassius April 11, 2026 at 6:28 AM

    Reacted with Thanks to wbernys’s post in the thread M. Dango's personal outline.
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    This to me is decently easy to explain. With these experiments it doesn't actually cause a true sharp pain but we instead just feel fear and all of the discomfort that fear brings out of the false belief that our hand has been struck and injured. Same…

  • Cassius April 11, 2026 at 6:22 AM

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    This is a fine place for this question and thank you for posting it. i may designate it so it appears in an Ehics section as well.

    I expect some highly perceptive answers, and I think the issue is important enough that I don't want anyone to hold back…

  • Cassius April 11, 2026 at 6:15 AM

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    I didn’t know where else to post this, so if Cassius or Anyone wants to delete and redirect me I’d welcome it…

    What do you think Epicurus would have thought of going to the moon? Would it be extraneous to friendship and community and pleasure, and…

  • Martin April 11, 2026 at 1:32 AM

    Reacted with Like to m.dango’s post in the thread M. Dango's personal outline.
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    Epicurean philosophy has been an intriguing topic for me to read on so far. I have admittedly found it a little unsettling in that I've yet to come across anything in particular I strongly disagree with or find objectionable?

    On the nature of the

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    2. Acccelerating Study of Canonics Through Philodemus' "On Methods of Inference"

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