| Humans are evolved creatures that are very resilient across environments. Any species that has this trait must not get stuck in local maximums, at an extreme that's why the koala is just not a resilient species, over confidence. We are an anti-niche species, to avoid this we must have a certain percentage of our population that has doubt, existential crisis that shakes us out of a well worn path. This always amazes me. If you deeply, emotionally _know_ that life has meaning, there will be some existential nights where you you will think "but maybe life doesn't have meaning", and if you _know_ life is meaningless you will sometime find yourself thinking "maybe there is meaning", our brains try to keep us from getting stuck. Humility in the face of the unknown. As a species, just amazing stuff. The cycle of confidence and doubt is absolutely amazing, it's kept us from getting stuck. Keeps us from having "target fixation" and lawn darting into the ground. Some individuals have these values tuned at extreme ends, the full distribution is represented by humanity. The most overconfident and the most anxiety ridden, this is all in our spectrum, and it turns out better or worse for each individual. The great thing is that we can share ideas and examine our priors. I used to believe that "nothing" was a real thing, but it's only an abstraction, nothing has never been observed it's only "real" in our imaginations. There's no such thing as nothing as far as anyone has observed or proven. Same thing with meaninglessness, nothing is meaningless, there are just bits of meaning maximally un-complex and decohered. You can use photon emissions from stars for RNG, humans have made even RNG have rich meaning and high practical utility. |