Anil Seth

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And I think when we do that, we lose sight of what and who we really are.

What are your thoughts on death?

I spoke to my mother about death quite a lot in the last years of her life.

And even when she was getting close to death, she would say she knew it was coming, but she couldn't imagine not existing.

There's something pretty profound about that.

It just seems conceptually impossible to imagine not existing because the act of imagining requires existing.

We can imagine the experience of absence.

Actually, that's the wrong way around.

I can imagine the absence of experience, but imagining the absence of experience is an experience.

So is that going to change as I get closer?

Maybe it's tomorrow.

Maybe it's in 30 years.

Maybe it's in 40 years.

I don't know.

Maybe we'll all take these longevity drugs and it will never happen.

I doubt that.

Entropy comes for us all.

So I don't know how that will change but I do think about death a little bit differently now.

One thing that I often return to is well there was all this time before I was born

And I don't really feel terrible about not being there over these eons of time before I was born.

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