Brain in a Vat cover image

David Benatar: The Meaning of Life [Remastered]

Brain in a Vat

00:00

Is There No Meaning in Life?

If we are in the situation where our lives are less meaningful than we would like them to be, then what should we do? Well you need as good a life as you can lead and i don't just mean morally so it's partly about the quality of your own life. There is some sort of hard limits on how much meaning we can generate not conceptually but just in parity that we almost never generate the kind of meaning that we think we do. Even if we were to stack all human knowledge on top of one another even if we could have access immediate access to all of that we would still be very close to the no nothing end of the spectrum.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app