At year end, I have a tradition of writing a column more speculative and personal than usual. In this post, I consider critically the standard physicalist belief that our consciousness depends on a physical brain, and hence death is the end of all awareness.
I was 46 years old when I first considered the question, what is aging and where does it come from? Before that, I had been a physicist with diverse scientific interests pretty much all my life. What was I thinking? Why had I never considered this topic before? I think the answer is: fear.
Ever since I can
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