Alzheimers in heaven.

[John 6IX Breezy]

Death is what gives things value.

Only in poetry does death give things value; which is what I mean by death being romanticized. At the end of the day value is subjective, and we are the ones that give it, not death.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'll go on ahead and report back. I'll need one person to NDE so we can chat.

[mordant]

Death is what gives things value.

Only in poetry does death give things value; which is what I mean by death being romanticized. At the end of the day value is subjective, and we are the ones that give it, not death.

Agree. Value can be, in part, a function of scarcity (real or perceived). But that's just a small part of it. It is really just what we arbitrarily prefer, based on our temperament, personality, preferences, self-awareness, curiosity, pain tolerance, and a few other things.

Death, by making life scarce, can increase the perceived value of the things we experience in life, but we have quite a bit of latitude in what we choose to value quite apart from, and often in spite off, the reality of our mortality. In a hypothetical situation where we had biological immortality and would never age or get sick but could only die of misadventure, we'd still assign relative value to various things and we would still have various scarcities in the mix influencing those subjective assignments we'd be making.

[Fireball]

Well, i know that my already frail books of math analisys, physics, chemistry are hard to digest for my limited brain. I seem to read philosophy books in a breeze, I understand the author as in its subjective view oh so clearly.

Call me stubborn, but I prefer more... technical books where you have to reason your way out of them, instead of reading a novel and claim you have study it.

This reminds me of the time during my university years where some person came on campus and claimed that they could read every book in the Science Library in one semester. Given that some of those books required a semester by themselves, I dismissed that statement as incredibly self-serving. Grind out even one book on electromagnetic theory in a week, I'll bow down to you. I have a degree in physics, and have 5 semesters of electromagnetic theory scorched into my brain. Of course, I'm retired now, and that stuff is steadily dropping out of memory, though!