In the distant future, robots will one day perform an algorithmic analysis of our twitter comments in order to resurrect our personalities.
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There's also a good discussion of this in Douglas Hofstadter's 'I am a Strange Loop'. Explores mystery of consciousness.
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Is this more neuroscientific than psychological/anthropological?
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It's philosophy. OK, there's a little mathematics, but who wouldn't enjoy reading about Godel's incompleteness theorem?
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How could you come to me with philosophy and maths on a Saturday morning?
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I genuinely think you'd get a lot out of reading some philosophy!
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I never have, tbh, and they make you do it rather a lot. I found Locke & Hobbes interesting! But ultimately wrong.
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The book to which you are referring sounds an awful lot like Becker's "The Denial of Death."
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But I like your added notion of legacy and continuity. As a classical music freak, I feel it strongly.
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That's James.In addition to immortality stories, he discusses resurrection, transcendence & legacy ones too
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But its me relating it to history & I see how it wld relate to classical music 2! Different kinds of texts
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Indeed. Like you, also obsessed with abandoned places, with the "presence of absence."
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They seem to have the same overall premise and message.
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