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Originally Posted by tisonlyi
This 'agent' collects and imperfectly passes on some of the information that it is exposed to at the very least and can 'consciously' or 'subconsciously' [...] act upon and transform the information at its disposal and pass this 'new' information on to other members of the network.
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What's interesting is that one can ever know that they are dead. It requires an entity outside of oneself to acknowledge such a thing. Furthermore, the death of a life form invariably leads to the possibility of life in other forms. Does this mean that one can never truly die alone?
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Death is the end of biological functions.
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So when I finish emptying my bowels, is that a kind of death?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 09-25-2009 at 06:23 PM..
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