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Death Be Not Proud
Death Be Not Proud We think of our life stories as headed toward a concluding sentence, after which, if they were novels, we would see written: “The End.” Not that everyone conceives this “end” the same way. Take Heidegger, the … Continue reading →
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Tagged A.J. Ayer, all is Love, all is One, Anglo-American Philosophy, Australian materialism, Authenticity, being-toward-death, brain as cause, brain as transmitter, brain effects of NDE's, brute power, close-mindedness, Coma Science Group, cultural breakthrough, David M. Armstrong, death, dogmatic skepticism, dominance and subordination, Dr. Francois Lallier, end of story, epiphenomenon, evidence for NDE's, experiences de mort imminente, fear of death, French existentialism, functional power, functionalism, German existentialism, golden rule, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre’s fundamental project, John Donne's Death Be Not Proud, life review, limitless love, losing the fear of death, Martin Heidegger, mauvaise foi, meaning of life, meeting deceased relatives, metaphysical idealism, metaphysical monism, metaphysical pluralism, my death, nature and nurture, NDE, NDE survivors' reports, NDE typical features, near death experience, out of body experiences, paradigm breaking, physicalism, Pim Van Lommel, privilege and oppression, quantum entanglement, science and the paranormal, scientific investigation of NDE's, Steven Laurey, supervenience, the for-itself, the in-itself, they-self, upward reductionism, veridical OBE's, Victor Zammit’s Friday Afterlife Report, worthiness of a life
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The Baiter and the Baited
The Baiter and the Baited We are back from a week of my neuropathy treatments at the Loma Linda clinic in California. The main progress this time has been in locating more precisely the regions of the body – ahem, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", accusation of bigotry, cause of neuropathy, derivative philosophy, determinism, epigenetics, established consensus, ethology, functionalism, genetic model, genetic theory, illness as a message, inflammation in the body, intelligence in nature, Jewish memory, Jews and Christians, l’esprit de l’escalier, Loma Linda clinic, masked insults, Materialism, neuropathy treatments, neurovascular system, oldest hatred, original philosophy, philosophic colleagues, physical self-understanding, pogrom, Princeton historian, reductionism, scale of nature, self-understanding, social baiting, social forces, social insults, social life as war, sonograms, symptomatic improvements, talk to our bodies, the body’s realism, the expressive body, the First Crusade, the Holocaust, the new anti-Semitism, the siddur, the talking body, walking handicap
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