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The question "What Is The Meaning of Life?" is fraught with difficulties and blindspots. It's so tempting to overcomplicate it, to oversimplify it, or to blindly rely on others to tell you the answer.
This is a snippet from my episode What is the Meaning of Life? (#133)
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Why are you here? How does personal meaning work? What questions can we ask to get to the core of our personal meaning structure?
This is a snippet from my episode What is the Meaning of Life? (#133)
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What is the meaning of life? When we get down to it, why are we here as individuals? Why does life itself exist? What is all this for?
I round off this month's theme of deep questions with the mother of all existential questions.
Next listen: Does the External World Exist? (#130) ; Is the World Physical? (#131)
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When we deconstruct paradigms like self and other, it's tempting to dismiss it outright. But self-other consciousness serves a clear function, and without it you would be lost. We want not to lose it, but to see through it.
This is a snippet from last Wednesday's episode on Do Other People Exist? (#132)
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You have not always had a sense of self and other: you had to develop it during childhood. It is not a given, but a construct.
This also means you can see beyond it and realise it is not the whole story.
This is an extract from my episode on Wednesday 18th, "Do Other People Exist?" (#132)
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We tend to assume that other people are separate from us and have their own, independent experiences.
Except these are highly questionable assumptions that we debate in this snippet from episode Do Other People Exist?(#132)
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We tend to assume other people are separate and independent from us. But what if this was simply a useful assumption or paradigm, not the be all end all?
Do other people exist? My conclusion: well... kind of.
Next listen: Is The World Physical? (#131) ; What is the Meaning of Life? (#133)
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I propose that the materialistic paradigm is deeply flawed.
While it is extremely useful and explanatory, it is underpinned by some highly questionable assumptions.
In this snippet from last week's episode Is The World Physical? (#131), we address those assumptions.
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There are very good reasons why materialism is the standard philosophical paradigm in the modern world, and here I outline them in a practical way.
This is a snippet from my Wednesday 11/2 episode, Is The World Physical? (#131)
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There are three simple, essential critiques of materialism that seriously jeopardise its legitimacy.
This is a snippet from yesterday's episode, Is The World Physical? (#131)
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