Category: meaning
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On meaning (Part 2): the hedonistic altruist
We established in Part 1 that nothing really matters. Nothing has an absolute meaning such that somebody could tell you that something is more important than anything else. Any such reasoning will end in nothingness because all our existence does not have a discernible meaning – sorry. However, people do care about things and do…
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On meaning (Part 1): nothing really matters
On Valentine’s Day 1990, the little spacecraft Voyager I, which was exploring the outer rims of our Solar System, turned its camera around to take a picture of Earth as seen from afar. The picture shown above became known as “Pale Blue Dot” because it depicts Earth as what it is: a grain of dust…