Nihilism seems to be a kind of suffering, caused by the fundamental absence of a way to realize one's meaning, and the inability to stop caring. It usually happens when you prove that God does not exist, but don't give up your need for God's existence.
The concept has been growing on me quite recently. I think that a God is basically a sentient culture, a superorganism, which requires conscious coordination and maintenance. That is different from a machine society, or from a cult, or a tribe.
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how about a consciously self-modifying complex society ?That seems to me What Comes Next. And I still don't see any Gods there.
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A God is simply a self spanning multiple brains. Gods are not more real than selves, but they are hard to replace. I perceive even Chomsky as religious in this sense.
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