Mortality is not only a limit, it is a form of perception. Finitude gives every choice its weight, and the traces we leave outlive the beings who left them.
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Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
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Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (1946)
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Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (1927), on being-toward-death
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Tim Minchin, 9 Life Lessons, the UWA occasional address
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Ecclesiastes, on hevel: vapour, breath, the thing you can see for a second on a cold morning
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Anthropic interpretability, on internal states that functionally mirror joy, fear, grief and unease
THIS WEEK’S EXERCISE