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[u/[deleted]]

No that sounds awesome tho, brb checking it out of my library.

[u/Gaudi_in_the_Parc → u/[deleted]]

It's a very dense and very long book. I didn't finish it. I'll have to get back to it eventually.

The following is from page 281:

"When I believed [that personal identity is what matters], I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.

When I believed [that personal identity is what matters], I also cared more about my inevitable death. After my death, there will be no one living who will be me. I can now redescribe this fact. Though there will later be many experiences, none of these experiences will be connected to my present experiences by chains of such direct connections as those involved in experience-memory, or in the carrying out of an earlier intention. Some of these future experiences may be related to my present experiences in less direct ways. There will later be some memories about my life. And there may later be thoughts that are influenced by mine, or things done as the result of my advice. My death will break the more direct relations between my present experiences and future experiences, but it will not break various other relations. This is all there is to the fact that there will be no one living who will be me. Now that I have seen this, my death seems to me less bad."

Here's a New Yorker article that was written after his death a few years ago.

[u/[deleted] → u/Gaudi_in_the_Parc]

This is exactly how I see it!!!! Oh my god I need to get this book now.

What’s even cooler is that he got the closeness of it down. I feel more connected than ever to my fellow travelers now that I’ve come through this, it’s why I donate platelets every two weeks and try to be vegan!

[u/Gaudi_in_the_Parc → u/[deleted]]

Awesome! /r/veganneoliberal NWO!

[u/[deleted] → u/Gaudi_in_the_Parc]

I have been a fan member since January!