Philosophy Wire: The safest way… Castles in the sand…

A mobile app that guides pedestrians along the safest instead of quickest route to their destination is being developed by researchers at Cardiff University. [1] We cherish our life. Because we hate death. But we don’t know what death is. Because we have no idea what life is. But we love our life. We want to be safe. So as not to die. But we don’t know what death really is. Everything we know is castles on the sand. We must be kids again in order to remember. That the funniest thing about castles was them being swept away by the water…

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