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Death is better understood as you losing the world than as the world losing you, because the world you experience is a construction in your brain.

Drawn from what Ralph Adolphs said

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  1. Ralph Adolphs

    Bren Professor of Psychology

    So rather than thinking of death as we normally do as the world loses you, the neuroscience perspective is the inverse which is you lose the world.

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