Back in 1980 I purchased my first record: The Who’s “Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy”. Sure, the title is weird (surpassed only by REO Speedwagon’s “You Can Tune a Piano But You Can’t Tuna Fish” in sheer badness), but still, I loved that album. Among the many memorable lyrics, one particular phrase stuck in my mind: “I hope […]
immortality
Living forever is not necessarily meaningful
I have addressed the link between meaning and immortality in the past here and here. In this essay I’m going to explain briefly why immortality does not, in itself, convey meaning. Consider the following scenario. There is no God and the blind, purposeless process of evolution gives rise to a kind of creature called Homo […]
