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by ux-app
4643 days ago
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> "What's wrong with dying" It's such a terrible waste. All that knowledge accumulated over years of life... gone. We don't know what the species is capable of if we could double or triple human life span. What if we could indefinitely extend the most productive years? Where might we be if we could have given Einstein the chance to live hundreds of years with his mind and body in prime condition? > "same happens when you die. In other words, they have cookies and chocolate there" wouldn't it be great if that were the case? Unfortunately there is exactly zero proof of any kind that this is so. > "each individual is actually a facet of an infinite whole, in other words - We are all One" This sentence is completely free of information. > "That's what all the religions and mystics have been telling us for millenia." Religions and mystics have been exploiting the normal human fear of death for millennia. Science might one day give us the keys to finally dodge that inevitable final bullet. |
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Oh but there is for those who seek it!
One kind of proof is called dimethyltryptamine. It lasts for 10 minutes, but when you come back, you might have a radically different view on these matters.
Other psychedelics, like LSD, also offer a different perspective on life and death and there are also different kinds of spiritual work one can do - meditation, holotropic breathing or living life in nature. They all help you realise just how fragile and transitory life is in nature and that that is a good thing.
>Religions and mystics have been exploiting the normal human fear of death
Isn't science (or rather scientists) driven by the same fear ? Isn't the knowledge that we're going to die a factor in making us go out and do stuff to survive ?
Wouldn't immortality lead to a state where we'd have to invent a simluation of mortal life in order to actually feel alive ?
How can one tell that this life isn't such a simulation ?