Okay, so are we saying here that then that this how can this then give purpose and meaning to an individual's life? How does this actually help us to understand what we're doing here? Just to clarify that. So

if you drop the mythology, I think mythology is powerful and richer than just a dry analytic account of the same story. So in the analytic account, dry and boring, nature is one field of subjectivity, that's objective idealism, which is probably the best ontology we have on the table today. but it's an instinctive spontaneous mind and that's why the laws of physics are so predictable and consistent. Nature is not deliberating what it's doing. It's just doing it because it is what it is. And within nature, because of evolution by natural selection after the origin of life, a creature has emerged that isn't purely reflexive or spontaneous or instinctive like the rest of nature. A creature has emerged that can deliberate, that can think things through, that can pass moral judgment, that can distinguish between good and evil, fair and unfair. What creature is that? Well, it's us. And as far as we can discern, we're the only game in town. So if this universe started 13.8 billion years ago, and life on Earth has been around for 4 billion years, finally, after 13.8 billion years of effort, blood, sweat, and tears, great suffering, supernova, and quasars, volcanoes, and tsunamis, finally there is a creature that has developed that ability, that capacity for metacognition, that capacity for passing value judgment on nature. the first time in 13.8 billion years, a capacity that is not present anywhere else in nature and that has cost nature an unfathomable amount to develop. And it's us. So that is the meaning of life, the meaning of life and still sticking to Jung, but I agree with it personally. The meaning of life is to observe, to bear witness to what is happening and to internalize it and contemplate it from the perspective of passing value judgment. We are God's spies. God is spying through the eyes of Job, and we are Job. And we are the only eyes that can see what is good and what isn't, what is fair and what isn't, what is proper and what isn nature becomes aware of itself, for good or for bad. Whether it's happy with what it finds out or not, it's a different question. But it finds out what it is and what it is doing through our eyes. There can be no greater meaning. And it's a meaning you don't need to create or project. It's intrinsic. it's imminent. It's expressing itself through you, whether you understand it or not, whether you like it or not, whether you believe it or not, it does not matter.