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A loose title covering : the individual, the experience of choice, and the absence of rational understanding of the universe with a consequent dread or sense of absurdity in human life.
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How to save oneself from this particular angst?
Q: How to save myself from this angst?
A: Be consistent with your assumptions.
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Not just the literal assumption:
Assuming that life is unique to planet earth
But also more significantl …
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Can High Levels of Logical Intelligence Lead to Limit the Evolution of Intelligent Life?
If the beings of the earth found out that they had been planted and bred there for a purpose entirely foreign to them, they would make a great deal of trouble. They could in principle even kill thems …
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What is most important in life?
The most dangerous part of your question is "XYZ philosophy seems most logical"
Gödel was certainly the greatest logician of the twentieth century and at least arguably the greatest of all time.
Gödel …
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Life: Pessimism vs optimism
Schopenhauer is where you should start.
He's of course the canonical pessimist philosopher in the western tradition:
Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must en …
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