Impermanence and Interconnectedness - Bodhipaksa - ND3387
New Dimensions
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The Importance of Updated Mental Models of Ourself
When you know someone, you build a model of that person in your mind. And when somebody dies, we don't delete those programs. It's not like you stop using Microsoft Word and say you just delete it from your computer. We've invested a lot of resources in the brain to simulate that person. You keep finding yourself thinking about this person who's died and having to realize over and over again that they've died. Sometimes the models that we build up of ourselves are actually highly inaccurate in the first place.
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