Saturday, February 1, 2020

Philosophy Wire: Explaining death.

More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose mothers took the drug while pregnant, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have solved a mystery that has lingered ever since the dangers of the drug first became apparent: how did the drug produce such severe fetal harm? [1] Explaining death. Well after it has taken place. Does it matter? We want to understand. We want to explain. And the more we get dragged into that logic, the more we miss the obvious and most important point of them all: That understanding and explaining something is not the culmination of human intellect. Experiencing it is. Die. And you will understand everything about death.

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