Your brain is wired to seek meaning everywhere. But meaning is a human thing, the universe has no intrinsic meaning. For some people the idea of a purposeless

Your brain is wired to seek meaning everywhere. But meaning is a human thing, the universe has no intrinsic meaning. For some people the idea of a purposeless universe is unbearable, so religion and philosophy were created in order to fill the gaps (I really like Taoism). This is one of my favorite brain hacks: since the universe is meaningless, you can give it any meaning you want. Invent a positive one and you will be happy. The Tao we talk about is not the real Tao.