Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and FantasyCarl B. Yoke, Donald M. Hassler |
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... existence is as good as actual existence . That's why death is impossible . Your software exists permanently and indestructably as a certain possibility , a mathematical set of relations . Your father is now an abstract , non - physical ...
... existence is as good as actual existence . That's why death is impossible . Your software exists permanently and indestructably as a certain possibility , a mathematical set of relations . Your father is now an abstract , non - physical ...
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... existence , people gradually turned to some con- cept of the soul as their hope for continued existence . The death of gods thus led inevitably to the death of death . Perhaps only in science fiction and fantasy have the questions ...
... existence , people gradually turned to some con- cept of the soul as their hope for continued existence . The death of gods thus led inevitably to the death of death . Perhaps only in science fiction and fantasy have the questions ...
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... existence were a false step whose consequences gradually became more and more obvious ? 1 ? Earlier in the same passage , however , Schopenhauer also posits " the necessity of death . " Humanity is not Plato's thing - in - itself , but ...
... existence were a false step whose consequences gradually became more and more obvious ? 1 ? Earlier in the same passage , however , Schopenhauer also posits " the necessity of death . " Humanity is not Plato's thing - in - itself , but ...
Contents
Is There Life After Immortality? | 19 |
A Recent Idea | 39 |
The Elves of J R R Tolkien and Sylvia | 57 |
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