Transcending Death Integration, Legacy, and Continuity What lives on after death? What can be made from it? Focus: Memory, story, and intergenerational transmission Grief as entropy reorganization and meaning rebuilding Symbolic immortality: creation, contribution, continuation The role of ritual in maintaining coherence post-loss Death as integration, not finality (Varela, Kimmerer, Frankl, Watts) Optional Cheatsheet: “Life …
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Death as Dysregulation
Death as Dysregulation When Systems Fail What can death teach us about dysfunction? Focus: System collapse as insight: when health, purpose, or meaning deteriorates Chronic illness as slow entropy buildup Allostatic overload, burnout, and existential numbness Mental health as death rehearsal (e.g. suicidal ideation, apathy) Societal death rituals as attempts to restore order from chaos …
Cultural Death
Cultural Death How Societies Define the End How do belief systems shape our response to death? Focus: Rituals, myths, and cosmologies of death (across cultures) Indigenous perspectives on death as transition Western denial vs. Eastern acceptance Funeral rites, ancestor reverence, and soul continuity The death of culture: societal entropy and collapse Optional Cheatsheet: “Death Across …
Psychological Death
Psychological Death Identity Collapse & Ego Dissolution What does it mean to die before you die? Focus: Psychological fragmentation (e.g., trauma, grief, ego death) Fear of annihilation vs. the relief of surrender Rebirth through breakdown (shamanic death, dark night of the soul) Psychedelic and spiritual experiences as simulations of death Dissolution of personal narrative and …
Biological Death
Biological Death The Dissolution of the System What actually happens when we die? Focus: Definitions: clinical death, brain death, cellular decay The biological cascade: apoptosis, autophagy, metabolic collapse Entropy and energy dissipation at the end of life Nervous system shutdown, DMT hypothesis, and final cognition The body’s “last efforts” to maintain coherence Optional Cheatsheet: “What …
The Religiosity Cup
The Religiosity Cup The wisdom that used religious ideologies as vessels.
Emergence & Complexity
Emergence & Complexity https://quantumgravityresearch.org/emergence-theory-overview/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theoryhttps:// www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01041/fullhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29729890/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027322972100054X
Entropy
Entropy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34385400/ Connection between the universal demonstration of entropy and our micro example. Our role as an entropy accelerator rather than a resistor. Complexity theory, feedback loops, Jeremy England theory, mitochondrial synergy. Once we have an averaged energy systems model to detect dysfunction/metabolic leakage, we should be able to use computational neuroscience to replicate and …
Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To
Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To Author: David Sinclair Topics: Longevity, cancer All information is attributed to the author. Except in the case where we may have misunderstood a concept and summarized incorrectly. These notes are only for reference and we always suggest reading from the original source. Contents Part I: …
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Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety Author: Alain De Botton Topics: Social, philosophy, anxiety, religion All information is attributed to the author. Except in the case where we may have misunderstood a concept and summarized incorrectly. These notes are only for reference and we always suggest reading from the original source. Contents Definitions Part One: Causes I. Lovelessness II. …