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Confronting death before death: Between imminence and unpredictability. Francisco Varela's Neurophenomenology of Radical Embodiment

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Depraz, N. Confronting death before death: Between imminence and unpredictability. Francisco Varela's Neurophenomenology of Radical Embodiment. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1, 83–95 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020324321991

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