Exploring what it means to be thinking matter
I’ve always liked an epitaph supposedly used by Epicureans in ancient Greece: “I was not; I was; I am not; I do not mind.” It expresses a benign resignation toward the inevitability of death as part of the natural cycle. And although it’s written in the form of a statement by a dead person, the [...]
Why we dream is even harder to figure out than why we yawn. This article from the New York Times talks about a trend toward seeing dreams as carriers of psychological meaning (rather than, say, the more or less meaningless byproduct of physiological processes in the brain that happen while we’re asleep). The article, which [...]
Perhaps you’ve had about all the hearts and flowers you can stand. If so, here’s an interesting story about a test that estimates how likely a person is to die in the next four years. Researchers have devised twelve questions for people over 50, each with associated point totals. The higher your score, the more [...]
This is not exactly a cheerful topic, but here’s an interesting press release about research at the University of Michigan into how people feel about various end-of-life matters. Researchers used a number of focus groups to study the feelings of different groups (men, women, Hispanics, African Americans, whites, Arab Americans) about things like assisted suicide, [...]
You are currently browsing the The Thinking Meat Project weblog archives for 'death' tag.
Longer entries are truncated. Click the headline of an entry to read it in its entirety.
What TM is reading:
For more suggestions, visit the Thinking Meat bookstore.
Are you reading an interesting book on a Thinking Meat topic? Write to books at thinkingmeat dot com and tell me about it.
Bad Behavior has blocked 403 access attempts in the last 7 days.