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Can you die in a dream?

By / / Metaphysics, Philosophy of mind / , , , , , , , ,

Thank you, Ela Özcan, for such a mind-boggling question. In my first Armchair Opinion, I said that whenever wondering whether something is possible, a good place to start is with experience; for if it has ever manifested in experience, then of course it must be possible. I stand by this principle. So, when wondering whether […]

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We have nightmares. Can we have daymares?

By / / Aesthetics, Philosophy of human nature, Philosophy of mind / , , , , ,

Thank you, Max Palmer, for a great question! There is a famous nightmare that was had by one of Freud’s patients and that was subsequently interpreted by a French psychoanalyst, Lacan, and more recently by the popular Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek. The patient had this nightmare after falling asleep beside the coffin of his little

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