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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is Meaning Created or Discovered?

Lex: If meaning is sacred in your non-theist view, is meaning created or is it discovered? Lex: I would say that. And before you say, oh, well, give me a chance, because you participate in it. You've experienced an insight, yes? Did you make it happen? The insight. So you do think that is both? Yes. But at the same time, I'm somebody that, based on the chemistry of my brain, have been extremely fortunate to be able to discover beauty in everything in the most mundane and boring of things.

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