I was interested in your comment that if we were immortal, we would have to simulate death. This seems to be the crux of your argument that we absolutely need limits. Otherwise, we would just twiddle our thumbs for a billion years. There's something intuitively right about this idea that if you don't have anything to battle against, you are not going to flourish in some sense. I mean, one of the things I look at is what does it even mean to speak of being immortal?
Life without death, says philosopher Dean Rickles, is like playing tennis without a net. In his new book, “Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful,” Dean challenges us to rethink what it means to get the most out of each day.
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