NEW333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Theria, Thomas Nagel, Psychotechnology
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Confluence of buddhism and cognitive science: perennial threats. Problems that emerge within the functioning of religio itself --> part of the meaning of. Dukkha: historical forces that brought about domicide. Focus on perennial problems: absurdity that can become horror, reflectiveness gap, parasitic processing, religio and meaning in life, absurdity. Best descriptions of it but bad answer. Thomas nagel - the absurd | the view from nowhere. People think it may be generated by an argument --> it"s all meaningless as it doesn"t matter in a million years. If nothing you do matters in millions of years then you shouldn"t care about what happens a million years. -> blow you up to the size of the universe. Nagel shows all the arguments are non sequitur or invalid. They are after the fact expressions of it. -> we want to think if we could reason the right way we would be free from absurdity.
