/lit/ - Literature

>>19450647
I'm sorry, this remark that "[God] is a surrogate self" requires clarification. I mean experience. The bodily self is our access to reality, and thus glory. I might have said surrogate world, since God represents glory and power, but the physical self is our only proof of that power. We might not believe in ourselves or our personal symbers, but the body doesn't require belief.

>>19450671
The experience machine is set up, it runs, and then breaks down. The making and unmaking are both involuntary from the person's point of view. Why make a distinction? if the making is some beautiful metaphysical act of creation, then there you have it. If not, who says death is of any importance? That's like obsessing over which scrap yard your new car will go to in 20 years.