Re-reading this, it isn’t clear what you’re responding to. For future readers, you’re explaining why “death gives meaning to life” is a cached thought.
Indeed, I was wondering about that.
For more clarity: it’s a reply to bw’s collapsed comment. It’s not nested since this article was moved from overcomingbias to here, and overcomingbias didn’t have nested comments. You’ll see that a lot in the sequences.
Two words: Stockholm Syndrome
Re-reading this, it isn’t clear what you’re responding to. For future readers, you’re explaining why “death gives meaning to life” is a cached thought.
Indeed, I was wondering about that. For more clarity: it’s a reply to bw’s collapsed comment. It’s not nested since this article was moved from overcomingbias to here, and overcomingbias didn’t have nested comments. You’ll see that a lot in the sequences.
Right.
But the problem was to keep going on, breathing and even sort of thinking in the presence of death in this world.
Thousands generations of our ancestors had to adopt to death in some way, without any chance to strike back at it at all.
It isn’t your usual “hostage situation” as they go...