A Neuroscientist’s Curious Approach to Dying
A Slight Change of Plans
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The Neuroscience of Death
Neuroscientist David Linden received a devastating diagnosis of heart cancer, just shy of his 60th birthday. He found himself fascinated by how his brain was reckoning with his mortality. Our brains are always predicting the future in a deep way presupposes that there will be a future. And so I think this makes it very hard as a human to truly imagine yourself gone because that next moment is something that's deep in our consciousness.
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