Throughout human history, we have devised elaborate mythologies, philosophical systems, religious doctrines, and now scientific dreams-all constructed with a singular purpose: to deny, delay, or transcend the reality of our mortality. We build monuments. We write books. We accumulate wealth and fame. We conceive of afterlives, reincarnations, and technological transcendence. We do all of this because the alternative-accepting that our time is genuinely limited, that our consciousness will one day cease-is, for most of us, intolerable. But here is what this book argues: that chase is futile.
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