What is the meaning of life for you if you really think about and accept that you only have one & it ends? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Light-Death-James-Lindsay/dp/1634310861/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479141083&sr=8-1&keywords=Life+in+light+of+death …
Hmm. That sounds like either a very bad situation or clinical depression.
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Isn't that the basic "meaning of life" question though? "Why bother living?" Wondering what being alive "means" seems odd.
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Rephrase it as 'What gives your life meaning?' if it makes it easier.
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Parsing that, I feel like I'm missing something. Why do I get up? Hungry. Why do comp programming? Enjoyable challenge. etc.
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To ask what all my actions mean in some meta, meta, meta sense... loses meaning.
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Don't ask in a meta sense. Humans have a basic psychological need for meaning & purpose. How do you fill it?
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We are talking maybe about 1.a motivation to act and do things and 2. a psychological tactic to make pain and death bearable.
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Talking abt a consistent human need for meaning & purpose whatever underlies it and diff ways humans seek to fill it.
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In James Lindsay's new book (which I'll be evangelical abt for a while) he looks at the regrets of the dying 1/2
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