Anatta and Atoms and 'I'

And Democritus? I find it fascinating that Leucippus and Democritus came up with atomism in the so-called 'Axial Age' while early Buddhism was developing. The Epicurean ideas that followed, as preserved in Lucretius, really strike me as similar to 'anatta', no-self, particularly the idea that 'death is nothing to us' because our selves dissolve away in the flux of atoms when we die.

I also read a recent article in Scientific American Mind by Jesse Bering on the subjective difficulty of imagining one's own death.

There are also interesting papers referred to in the above article by Shaun Nichols.