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Contemplating Mortality and Unachievable Goals
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The human cognitive light cone allows for goals that are longer than our lifespan, which means that we may have goals that are not achievable. Contemplating mortality can help us come to terms with this fact.
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As organisms become more complex, their relationship with death also becomes more intricate.
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Death, Organisms
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As organisms become more complex, their relationship with death also becomes more intricate. When an organism dies, its cells may crawl off and assume a different lifestyle or may come back together as something else, depending on the breakdown of connectivity between cells.
ChapterContemplating Mortality and Unachievable Goals
Episode#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The human cognitive light cone allows people to have goals that may not be achievable within their lifetime, which leads to contemplating the finiteness of life.
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cognitive science
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The human cognitive light cone allows people to have goals that may not be achievable within their lifetime, which leads to contemplating the finiteness of life.