[marginalium]
Everything is better than death
21 Jan 2023
Everything is better than death? I’m left highly unconvinced by this. Here is an extract:
There is a popular idea that some very large amount of suffering is worse than death. I don’t subscribe to it
I predict that most (all?) ethical theories that assume that some amount of suffering is worse than death - have internal inconsistencies.
My prediction is based on the following assumption:
permanent death is the only brain state that can’t be reversed, given sufficient tech and time
The non-reversibility is the key.
Anthologies: Betterment, Somatic Architecture, On Emotion, Cognitive Karstica, On (Un)happiness, On the Nature of Things