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How could anything mean anything when pretty soon (in a cosmological sense) there won't be any such thing as a mind in which meaning could exist?
by ForHackernews 8y ago
How could anything mean anything when pretty soon (in a cosmological sense) there won't be any such thing as a mind in which meaning could exist?
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoWell in that case, since the universe itself is ultimately doomed, why not delude ourselves into believing that there is, in fact, meaning in our lives so that the remainder of our life isn't spent in misery? I submit that the "fake" subjective meaning and some "real" objective meaning are indistinguishable.
- shrimp_emoji 8y agoAnd how do you know that the black of our heat death isn't the white of more universes and civilizations than there's ever been before but which we'll never see not that it matters except in an absurdly selfish way? :3 That's what a Nine Inch Nails song taught me once. (But, given that we don't know what most matter or energy that makes up the Universe is, it feels a little silly to anchor meaning to current cosmological knowledge. Maybe a nice meaning to adopt is to improve that knowledge because we might discover ways to insulate against heat death indefinitely or something. Although you likely won't be doing that at the salaries in the OP.)
- ForHackernews 8y ago> why not delude ourselves into believing that there is, in fact, meaning in our lives so that the remainder of our life isn't spent in misery? I believe I already stipulated to religious belief as a way out of this quandary.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoI contest the use of 'religion' to refer to 'subjective meaning' on the grounds that it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
- JohnFen 8y agoThings have meaning right now during your existence. I honestly don't see how the impermanence of your existence impacts that.