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Re:Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips by throw1234651234 on Sunday April 12, 2020 @12:10PM (#22849137)
What's over-simplified about that statement? That's a perfect summary of Buddhism - it encompasses the point completely without going into techniques.

The only part that's missing is "...with the goal of avoiding suffering".

Re:Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips by renewiltord on Sunday April 12, 2020 @02:30PM (#22850114)
Comments like that are a bellwether of the place they’re posted in. People will hedge their comments whenever they fear there is a sufficient concentration of “well, actually”s in the audience.
Re:Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips by branweb on Sunday April 12, 2020 @03:35PM (#22850510)
I think it's oversimplified because there would need to be a long explanation on what is meant by "self", which the commentor very wisely put in scare quotes.

To the parent: actually I think this "death of decoherence" pretty closely matches the Buddhist doctrine of interdependent arising, so not sure about the disagreement there.