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528. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life is Meaningless and Amazing

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The Meaning of Life: A Storytelling Perspective

The first step in answering the question of the meaning of life is to consider what kind of answer would be acceptable to oneself./nHumans are storytelling animals who think in stories rather than facts or equations./nThinking of the meaning of life as a role in a grand production or drama is misguided because reality itself does not work like a story./nThe laws of physics and nature do not care about humans or their existence.

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