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Authority, Violent AI, & Myth of Self - Dr. Thomas Metzinger, J. Gutenberg University of Mainz

The DemystifySci Podcast

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Is Death a Part of Life?

I've always thought that the suffering is an important part of being alive and there is beauty in it. I think very few other animals have an explicit representation of their own mortality. And each of us is a much more devout Buddhist, a much more committed communist. The attachment to our ideological framework increases when what these scientists call mortality salient information. You can actually... You can make something that will be there for beyond that time. I think there's an immortality.

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