You don’t have to travel that far. Being a habitat journeyman from a lower tier Stockholm suburb one to an academical one will see that meaning question multiplied. Where I grew up we just lived on without too many questions asked. No meanings of life, no wants to do with our lives. We also became, imho, not less valuable for mankind, doing what we do best to put milk on tables, and to get some comfortability.I’d imagine if I was an African man struggling to eat this would be the last question on my mind. It’s the spoilt westerners that have this sort of nihilistic outlook about life. Life’s too easy or comfortable is why this question gets asked — simplyG
The starving man might think, "This is it? This is life? Pain and misery? Life is meaningless." He might think that, because he can. No other animal can. To our knowledge, nothing else in the universe thinks, searches, contemplates, wonders. I can’t fault anyone for wanting to go to the Zen route, and do less of those things. But neither can I fault anyone for doing the thing that is uniquely ours, the thing that defines us more surely than anything else.I’d imagine if I was an African man struggling to eat this would be the last question on my mind. It’s the spoilt westerners that have this sort of nihilistic outlook about life. Life’s too easy or comfortable is why this question gets asked. — simplyG
Same applies to human beings, but we want more or specifics to which the computer replies: 42 — simplyG
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