RE: desire for afterlife
April 9, 2019 at 7:59 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2019 at 8:00 am by Sal.)
(April 7, 2019 at 9:14 am)Thoreauvian Wrote: Consciousness was evolved to deal with the circumstances of ordinary life. Many eternal-life schemes are so different from ordinary life that people would go mad after a while. Who would wish for that?
A mind that would be able to cope existing forever (or a very long time) would be radically different from a human mind.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman