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When intellectual sophistication meets raw human experience

I've studied philosophy of mind for years but when my father was dying I couldn't find any words or concepts that actually helped with the grief.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Abstract knowledge about consciousness and suffering proves inadequate when confronted with the immediacy of loss and mortality.

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