Does rational thinking require believing we die like dogs?

Jumping in the middle of a debate between two of my favorite Medium writers on the question of what happens when we die.

Image: Kevin Yudhistira Alloni on unsplash. Is there a bigger question in life than what happens when it’s over? The answer to that provide a major dividing line between physicalists and non-physicalists. And reveals a cognitive dissonance deep in our culture.

We live, then we die. What happens next? Is there a bigger, more important, question than that? The answer we hold in our minds drives the meaningful actions of our lives, even if the answer is we don’t know and because we don’t know we will…