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Yeah, you should definitely take a mental breather after digesting this topic. The most heartbreaking/peaceful passage...
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Careening Through the Multiverses →
In this week’s edition of book exploring, I am going philosophical. I’m talking big picture questions, here. Maybe even the biggest picture questions. Like: Why are we here?
I’m going to come clean for a second. I’ve been reading this week’s book for months. Not weeks. Months. It’s not that I’ve…
Yeah, you should definitely take a mental breather after digesting this topic. The most heartbreaking/peaceful passage you quoted was, "There will be stretches that appear meaningful, that seem to harbor hidden messages and purposes. But each such local meaning/message/purpose will be contradicted by another local meaning/message/purpose elsewhere in the generic reality. So they will add up to cosmic meaninglessness.“
I mean, that’s rough - but it’s also reassuring, if you accept the theory. After reading a book like this, I don’t see how anyone goes into work the next day because I would imagine that the reader would feel obligated to navigate through all possibilities that the universe holds. Day-to-day shit doesn’t seem to make the cut when you’re trying to understand the unknown. This book sounds great, according to this review.