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How can we die if we do not exist?

11 February 2003 by Frank Meeuwsen

Nou ja, nog eentje dan: How can we die if we do not exist? We cannot die, because we do not exist. That is, we are only an amalgamation of non-living, non-physical parasitic patterns (called ‘memes’) that are imprinted biochemically in human brains. We take that brain and shape it into a functioning human mind. How can we die if we are not real in any physical sense?

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