#7 Space aliens might have completely different ideas about what counts as meaningful, which shows nothing is really meaningful at all.
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#12 After everyone is dead, and the sun explodes and the human race goes extinct, nothing will be meaningful to anyone.
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#17 Subatomic particles have no meaning, and everything is made of particles, and no process adds meaning to them, so there’s no meaning.
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#20 Meanings would imply mind/body dualism, which we know is wrong. Science shows that consciousness is just a neurochemical process.
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@Meaningness Whenever I see this one, I get really confused until I remember I grew up in the weird religion that doesn't believe in souls.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers uh… not sure I follow… the “weird religion” is the scientific/rational worldview?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness No, Adventism. Was attempting to say that I don't naturally see the dichotomy in that one, and I find it bizarre...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers Oh, how interesting, I don’t know about that! Is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mortalism … ?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Hadn't heard it called Mortalism before (have heard "Christian Materialism"), but it looks like that's it, yes.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@TristanSevers Cool! There’s a Catholic philosopher, Peter van Inwagen, who’s a strict materialist, and argues that resurrection must be >1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@TristanSevers > of the body, the same one when you died, so God takes your brain then and replaces it with an inert replica, and He >
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@TristanSevers > physically stores it on ice in a physical location until Judgement Day.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@TristanSevers I think this is interesting because it decouples the mind/body problem from the life-after-death issue.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like - 1 more reply
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