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#789 Kieran Setiya - Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

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The Cosmic Meaning of Human Life

I think one way to see how there could be meaning is to think about Say well, look, we're gonna go extinct at some point Mm-hmm. It seems very disturbing to think about that as being imminent I mean, I think people do have a have a sense react with a sense of horror to the idea that will Will humanity will go extinct in the near future. We want humanity to go on but It's got to be possible for human life to have meaning even if we go extinct At some point Otherwise the sheer facts that we go extinct would mean it was all meaningless, which I don't believe is quite right. The answer depends on how human history goes Which means

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