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David Chapman
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 22 Apr 2017
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      “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# …

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    2. Rob MacLachlan‏ @robamacl 22 Apr 2017
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      So do you not have those feels about insignificance at the cosmic scale, or just say the feels are not dictated by science/reason?

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    3. Rob MacLachlan‏ @robamacl 22 Apr 2017
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      Have fair ev psych story about why we might feel that way. For humans, meanings are strongly social. There's way more universe than we need

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 22 Apr 2017
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      Yes… or in general remote things seem meaningless, so if you imaginatively place yourself remote to everything meaningful,

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 22 Apr 2017
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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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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 22 Apr 2017
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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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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 22 Apr 2017
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          answer seems to be: because it seems to force an eternalist/nihilist choice, and advocates of each want that.

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 22 Apr 2017
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          The imaginary distant standpoint undercuts the obviously correct alternative both eternalists and nihilists want to deny.

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