Re:‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whol...
by Domenic_S on Thursday November 29, 2018 @03:57PM
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The science disagrees https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/meaning-i...
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Re:‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whol...
by trevyn on Thursday November 29, 2018 @04:25PM
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Ah, interesting. Thank you for challenging my assertion.
Upon deeper introspection, my own personal experience of “happiness without meaning” is closer to “the meaning is just the universe/physics unfolding (and I happen to be a part of that)”, which is so all-encompassing that it has little meaning itself, in the Kolmogorov complexity sense. And concomitant well-being, which I would define as closer to “completely neutral affective experience” rather than the “positive affective experience” described as hedonic well-being in the study you referenced.