Third Death Note

A show on NPR this morning about sleep apnea. Many callers calling in with varying degrees of resistance.

To what?

1) To having to go through the humiliation tunnel of wearing an invasive prosthetic device that resists the fact that

2) Your brain largely doesn't care if you die, and might even have some pleasure in the repeated action of snuggling that flap of skin in your windpipe against itself because

3) Physical entities contain an inner irreducible disequilibrium such that

4) Martin Hagglund would have to hold that a single celled organism (his critique of Freud) must "want" to survive...

I conclude:

A) My counter-argument is easier than Hagglund's argument. All I have to do is show that there's an inner disequilibrium, in organic tissue and possibly in replicants. There's no wonder your brain is irritated by the body's physicality: it's a thrown together kluge.

Hagglund, by contrast, must show that lifeforms that are not strictly sentient obey LNC to the point of being unable to "want" to die.

B) Get a CPAP if you need one. Sleep apnea is a fatal condition that affects 40% of men and some women over 40.