There's a funny like there's this funny question philosophy 101 like would you live forever and I know people who are so uncomfortable in their modern life and body and self that they think about ending their own life decently. The happiest people those who are not afraid of death because they don't tell good stories and they're not afraid of dying because that's the end of the storytelling that's what important for them. What is the actual difference about how could you both want to live forever and end your own life and or be miserable just to make it easier if you're going to die? That seems contradictory but there's something to to to our earlier point specifically about this kind of like default mode
How does the mind work? What makes us sad? What makes us laugh? Despite advances in neuroscience, the answers to these questions remain elusive. Neuroscientist Patrick House talks about these mysteries and about his book Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. House's insights illuminate not just what we know and don't know about our minds--he also helps us understand what it means to be human.