“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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Replying to @Meaningness
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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Replying to @robamacl @Meaningness
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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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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Replying to @Meaningness @robamacl
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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answer seems to be: because it seems to force an eternalist/nihilist choice, and advocates of each want that.
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The imaginary distant standpoint undercuts the obviously correct alternative both eternalists and nihilists want to deny.
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