If You Could Relive Your Life, Would You? - DoubleBlind Mag
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What is a good life? What are good states of consciousness? If you could re-experience all the lived moments in your life, would you? Would even half of
What is a good life? What are good states of consciousness? If you could re-experience all the lived moments in your life, would you? Would even half of them make the cut? These are questions that German philosopher Thomas K. Metzinger wants us to consider. A professor at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, co-founder of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and former president of the German Cognitive Science Society, Metzinger introduced the term “bewusstseinskultur” (German for “consciousness culture”) in 1994—but only now, in the midst of the psychedelic…
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