”Meaning and purpose are just a distracted person’s imaginary friends.”
Sam Harris said this, and I want you to pay attention to any resistance you have to this idea?
Now, if you can let go of that resistance, then you can get to really utilising meaning and purpose in your life.
Like our feelings, they aren’t real. But every person feels something like them, and it’s the similarity of feeling-structures that is the key to using them, even if the statement holds.
@gimulnautti sorry, I think it’s exactly the other way around: feelings are the only truths in life, in a world that you can’t objectively experience at all.
Therefore, they are the only things that CAN give life meaning an purpose.
And even if you add science to the equation: feelings and emotions are chemical reactions in the brain. They are as real as any chemical reaction can be!
Logic and the drive of the brain to improve it’s prediction systems to more completely match the outside world is also a major factor behind how minds work. We wouldn’t have novelty-seeking behaviour otherwise.
You might also have misunderstood the intention. The realisation that feelings don’t represent the actual state of the outside world isn’t synonymous to disregarding them.
”Das ding an sich” they are not, but still the only experience of it.
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