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Author: Christina Anne Knight

Christina Anne Knight is a proponent of the wide application of general systems theory, including toward understanding the evolution of religion and the scientific field of cosmology (and that there may be a homologous architecture to space-time geometry that accounts for the three types of matter and how they interact).

Why There Is No Afterlife: A Systems Perspective
Free Inquiry Volume 42, No. 3
April/May 2022
Christina Anne Knight

The survival instinct is strong within our species. Preservation of one’s existence is of supreme importance, and as social organisms, this concern for survival extends to others as well. In fact, it is reasonable to suspect that the impetus for the evolution of the concept of an afterlife was an attempt to reconcile the need …

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