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Meaning Is Connection To Transcendent Reality
- Meaning in life is the sense that your life is worth continuing despite failures.
- John Vervaeke says people need to feel connected to something with reality beyond themselves.
Classroom Test About Love And Reality
- Vervaeke tests students by asking if they'd want to know a partner cheated even if it destroyed the relationship.
- Almost all preferred truth because the relationship would not be real to them otherwise.
Cognition Runs On Relevance Realization
- Our cognitive core is 'relevance realization', the ability to zero in on what matters amid combinatorial information.
- Vervaeke argues this recursive process underpins our sense of being connected and competent.