I Should Not Really Object To Dying

Fundamentally An Organism Has Conscious Mental States If And Only If There Is Something That It Is Like To Be That Organism--something It Is Like For The Organism.

There Is A Tendency To Seek An Objective Account Of Everything Before Admitting Its Reality.

If Life Is Not Real, Life Is Not Earnest, And The Grave Is Its Goal, Perhaps It's Ridiculous T Otake Ourselves So Seriously.

The Great Cognitive Shift Is An Expansion Of Consciousness From The Perspectival Form Contained In The Lives Of Particular Creatures To An Objective, World-encompassing Form That Exists Both Individually And Intersubjectively. It Was Originally A Biological Evolutionary Process, And In Our Species It Has Become A Collective Cultural Process As Well. Each Of Our Lives Is A Part Of The Lengthy Process Of The Universe Gradually Waking Up And Becoming Aware Of Itself.

If Sub Specie Aeternitatis [from Eternity's Point Of View] There Is No Reason To Believe That Anything Matters, Then That Does Not Matter Either, And We Can Approach Our Absurd Lives With Irony Instead Of Heroism Or Despair.