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David Benatar: The Meaning of Life [Remastered]

Brain in a Vat

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The Importance of Taylor's Modification

In the original sisyphian case without Taylor's modification um sisyphus does not think his life is meaningful so he doesn't subjectively perceive his life as meaningful whereas many of us do correctly or incorrectly and on your view it would be incorrectly. So at least insofar as we think it's meaningful overall considering all the different perspectives you could take i wonder with that there's not a distinction between the sisyphan case and our case though because  many people spend quite a lot of time worrying that their lives don't have meaning, for example.

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