Metadata
- Author: People I (mostly) Admire
- Full Title:: 84. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life Is Meaningless and Amazing
- Category:: 🎙️Podcasts
- URL:: https://share.snipd.com/episode/62bf6de7-9eaf-4a0a-9e4b-6d60ecba2c99
- Finished date:: 2023-03-13
Highlights
Human life is not a drama Transcript: Speaker 2 You say human life has no meaning. Speaker 1 When you ask, what is the meaning of life, before you even attempt an answer, i would say the first step is to think, what kind of answer be acceptable to me? And the answer is a story. We are story telling animals. We think not in facts, not in statistics, not in equations. We think in stories. People sometimes think about the cosmos as one big drama, and they ask themselves, what is my role in the drama? Or what is the role of humankind in the drama? And the meaning of my life is my part in the drama. It’s like there is this big hollywood production, and i’m one of the actors. I have a role in the drama, and this be the meaning of my life. And on my death bed i would feel complete and satisfied. I’ve done my share. And the shocking realization is that this entire approach is completely misguided. Because reality itself, the universe, the laws of physics, they don’t r like a story or like a drama. (Time 0:15:44)