Hmm. That sounds like either a very bad situation or clinical depression.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Isn't that the basic "meaning of life" question though? "Why bother living?" Wondering what being alive "means" seems odd.
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Replying to @MrHuman333
Rephrase it as 'What gives your life meaning?' if it makes it easier.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @MrHuman333 @HPluckrose
To ask what all my actions mean in some meta, meta, meta sense... loses meaning.
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Replying to @MrHuman333
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @MrHuman333
Talking abt a consistent human need for meaning & purpose whatever underlies it and diff ways humans seek to fill it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @MrHuman333
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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and the benefits of vividly imaging yourself to be dying so that what is important in ur life stands out & you can live for it.
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