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Being human in the age of AI

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Disenchanted World

The idea of meaning used to be something that was embedded in science. Now, the idea of meaning is purely subjective and can't tell us anything about ultimate ends or telos. It seems almost illusory, right? Because what is the mind anyway? What is consciousness? There is a sense in which it's just all stories that we're making up.

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