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Cosmic Insignificance Therapy (#274)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Is the Infinite Significance of a Human Being?

"I want to talk about happiness and entropy. What is Maxwell's demon?" he asks. "We think that there's something associated with the existence of consciousness that's undefinable, and that we sort of know it when we see it." He says people who proclaim cosmic insignificance theory are just trying to bolster their spirits.

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