Comments on: Love and immortality http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/14/love-and-immortality/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 15:27:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Enterhase http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/14/love-and-immortality/#comment-5993 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:42:19 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/love-and-immortality/#comment-5993 “We recognise love as our companion and protector and we now think that it may even shield us from death itself, at least while we’re alive.”
This reminded me of “Romance del enamorado y la muerte”, 15th century: “La Muerte me est√° buscando, junto a ti vida ser√≠a.”

]]> By: Anibal http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/14/love-and-immortality/#comment-5992 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:01:13 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/love-and-immortality/#comment-5992 This reminds me the ancient wisdom of Epicurus to cope with anxiety and any negative feelings.
Epicurus said:
“Death, the most frightening of bad things, is nothing to us; since when we exist death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist” [to be anxious abou it] (Letter to Menoeceus,125)

]]> By: FoxP2 http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/14/love-and-immortality/#comment-5991 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:03:44 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/love-and-immortality/#comment-5991 I adopt a very biological stance on this subject. Life is just a self-sustaining synchronized and patterned movement cycle of chemicals. Our reason for choosing life is the same as insects and bacteria and fungai; to die would mean an end to the cycle. Sentience and love evolved to better our chance for survival and reproduction, so to continue the cycle. Although it is a very macro viewpoint on the reason for life, I still believe it holds true.
//I swear I’m not a pessimist, and I do laugh on occasion

]]> By: Lilian Nattel http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/14/love-and-immortality/#comment-5990 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:11:15 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/love-and-immortality/#comment-5990 Fascinating. And if you think about newborn and very young infants who are completely dependent on primary caregivers–might their anxiety be the basis for attachment and all love thereafter? I tell my own kids that after I die, I’ll still love them, and I believe it.

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