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The science disagrees https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/meaning-is-healthier-than-happiness/278250/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/

• trevyn 8y ago
  Ah, interesting. Thank you for challenging my assertion. Upon deeper introspection, my own personal experience of “happiness without meaning” is closer to “the meaning is just the universe/physics unfolding (and I happen to be a part of that)”, which is so all-encompassing that it has little meaning itself, in the Kolmogorov complexity sense. And concomitant well-being, which I would define as closer to “completely neutral affective experience” rather than the “positive affective experience” described as hedonic well-being in the study you referenced.