“Rationally, looking at your life in cosmic perspective, you realize everything is meaningless.” Excellent rebutal: http://sci-hub.cc/http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00048402.2010.527354# …
Yes… or in general remote things seem meaningless, so if you imaginatively place yourself remote to everything meaningful,
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then from that imagined standpoint everything is meaningless. But things don’t actually get smaller when you move away from them,
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and things don’t actually get less meaningful either. More interesting question is why anyone would want to do this exercise…
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Most SF revolves around going to other planets full of people (maybe with latex overgrowth). We can relate to that. Stories all about social
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Influence in that context. Wonder if you could have "intelligent" non social species, but imagination largely fails me.
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