#rebeccagoldstein — Public Fediverse posts

The Mattering Instinct

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/22/mattering-instinct-goldstein/

The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You and Your Childhood Self the Same Person Despite a Lifetime of Change

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/29/rebecca-goldstein-personal-identity/

#RebeccaNewbergerGoldstein - Why Is There #Anything At All?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzwxJrPzwgA&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

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#RebeccaNewbergerGoldstein - Is #Consciousness an #Illusion ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCqQUFep3YM&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

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I matter

That I matter, that my life demands the ceaseless attention I give it, is exactly what those genes would have any organism believeing, if that organism was evolved enough for belief. The will to survive evolves, in a higher creature like us, into the will to matter.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

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