Death awareness is different from survival instinct. It is death awareness that allows we humans to make value judgements like the one you made about the structure of scientific revolutions, and act on those values.
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The reason people are hysterical about death . . . >> > > . . . is the same reason all animals are. It is the instinct of self > preservation. Even cockroaches are terrified of death. If they were not, > predators would have hunted them to extinction eons ago. > > - Jed > >
