Alex O'Connor
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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And it's like, okay,
Hear me out.
Have you ever tried reading a word of any kind of non-Western philosophical canon?
And if the answer is no, I'm not promising you're going to find it there, but I'm saying there is so much more for you to do before you can confidently have even a view, I think, on the nature of the self, the nature of death, because most of our philosophical convictions are so...
culturally embedded with it without us realizing it that if you don't step outside of that for a moment you might just be following a thread that you are not the author of and so i'd recommend stepping outside of that and i'm not just saying that i think people have noticed that over the course of my recent trajectory and the things that i'm talking about this is just something that i've done there's a lot to say about that i spoke to a guy called thomas metzinger on my show about this
And so people want to kind of really know what I'm talking about when I say all that.
I'd recommend they go and watch that.
If you're worried about it, also just realize that you're not alone.
This is like the foundational question of human existence.
I think it's weird not to be worried about it.
It's sort of strange to me that people aren't talking about it all the time.
We also have a sort of cultural reticence to talk about death.
You know, death used to be much more present.
Dead bodies in the street, plagues, all this kind of stuff.
COVID sort of brought that back into sharp focus for a lot of people.
But death is a bit of a taboo, and we don't really like to talk about it in polite society.
And I think maybe that's also part of the problem.
Last three, one sentence.
That was more than one sentence.
Well, there have been contexts in which...
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