30 July 2007

The next life

Jim Holt in Eternity for Atheists:

Curiously, the doctrine of immortality is more a pagan legacy than a religious one. The notion that each of us is essentially an immortal soul goes back to Plato. Whereas the body is a compound thing that eventually falls apart, Plato argued, the soul is simple and therefore imperishable. [...]

If death is not extinction, what might it be like?
Word is out that it actually looks like King's Cross station. YMMV.

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