PHIL 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Higher Consciousness
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Harry lives 5 happy years and then dies. John lives 85 happy years and then dies. Clearly, one would want 85 happy years more than 5 years of happiness. E. m. "s life is boring and tedious after drinking the elixir of life. She has lived for 342 years and is bored of life. How to cure boredom (1) is not met though: remove higher consciousness, make boredom unthinkable. , but, this violates the identity condition, complete engrossment, again, you would lose yourself in the activity. And this violates the identity condition: eternal reincarnation, forgetfulness. Dilemma: if i am the one that lives forever, then boredom will inevitably set in (identity w/o attractiveness). However, if boredom does not set in, then it is not i who lives forever (attractiveness w/o identity). Self-exhausting: you do it, it"s good but you never want to do it again. (climbing mt. Repeatable: you do it, it"s good you want to do it again. (favorite meal)
