I second Valter and Ben. It’s hard for me to grasp that you actually believed there was any meaning to life at all, let alone with high confidence. Any ideas on where that came from? The thought, “But what if life is meaningless?” hardly seems like a “Tiny Note of Discord,” but like a huge epiphany in my book. I was not raised with any religion (well, some atheist-communism, but still), and so never thought there was any meaning to life to begin with. I don’t think this ever bothered me ’til I was 13 and recognized the concept of determinism, but that’s another issue. Still- why would someone who believed that we’re all just information-copying-optimization matter think there was any meaning to begin with?
I second Valter and Ben. It’s hard for me to grasp that you actually believed there was any meaning to life at all, let alone with high confidence. Any ideas on where that came from? The thought, “But what if life is meaningless?” hardly seems like a “Tiny Note of Discord,” but like a huge epiphany in my book. I was not raised with any religion (well, some atheist-communism, but still), and so never thought there was any meaning to life to begin with. I don’t think this ever bothered me ’til I was 13 and recognized the concept of determinism, but that’s another issue. Still- why would someone who believed that we’re all just information-copying-optimization matter think there was any meaning to begin with?