How Do You Know That You Are Going to Die? 22nd Apr 2019

Name: How Do You Know That You Are Going to Die? 22nd Apr 2019
Uploaded: 2019-04-22
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: Ananta explores the nature of death and self-knowledge, explaining why the Self cannot be known through the same perceptual and inferential gears as the world.

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Ananta explains that while worldly knowledge relies on perception and inference, the Self cannot be known through these limited means. He points to a primal self-knowledge that exists prior to all concepts and sensory experiences.

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You cannot know yourself through conceptual or perceptual knowledge; you know yourself by being yourself.

The idea of death is a mixture of sensory observation and mental inference, not your true nature.

Primal self-knowledge cannot be fit into a conceptual box.

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