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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness

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What Do You Seek When You Believe in God?

i think my consciousness gives my world is meaning. Is the origin of with meaningey, your world. Without any consciousness, maybe it would be a bleak, meaningless universe. Here we are, local creature, with our own subjective experiences. I think we can give the universe meaning ourselves. Our own local consciousness is somehow too puny and insignificant to invest any of this with cosmic significance. And maybe god gives you a sense of cosmic significance. But i'm just speculating here, so that you know, is the really interesting idea that consciousness is the thing that makes life meaningful.

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