Friday, February 19, 2016

"Every night we go to sleep, the person we were dies, and we get to make ourselves all over again every day."

Bruce Wayne, The True Mad Scientist Of The DC Universe (Batman #49 SPOILERS) - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News: "We choose the person we want to be, every day we wake up. Circumstances shape us, sure, but the biggest drive is always ourselves. Every night we go to sleep, the person we were dies, and we get to make ourselves all over again every day. That’s not an uncommon philosophical observation, there’s plenty of good reading on this may I recommend Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryavatara by Paul Williams? Or, you know, Batman #49 by Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette? Think about that, when you are going to sleep. If all we are is our conscious thoughts, our sentient mind, then every night, that person dies. Is this live, or is it Memorex, as Brundel asked after his first teleportation in The Fly. And our dreams are all the other lives we could, or couldn’t have lived…"


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