Meaning of Life | Alex Filippenko and Lex Fridman

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[@fluffurbia3501]

"And that's a beautiful story..." Thank you Alex Filippenko, you have managed to make me cry with your summary of what it means to be a humane treasurer of wonders.

[@gpn854]

To stay healthy , to help the living and to Honor those who left .

[@Hyumanity]

Lexxxx!!! Thank you so much for saying that, something along the lines of, from stardust to apes trying to have a conversation, how do you make sense of that? That’s what I often ponder and I can’t make sense of the spectrum of things that exist. There are so many very intriguing and incredible things, from quantum physics to general relativity, neutron stars, black holes, pistol shrimps, humans, ants cultivating fungi, computers, thinking and emotions, and the list goes on and on. It’s soooo wonderful!

[@JimmyDShea]

Yes.

[@x2mars]

Very well said for me to hear. Thank you

[@magicwood2360]

Love the thoughts you touch on , keep up the good work lex👌😉

[@tomsmith3269]

Great answer

[@CMFKILFEATHER]

Life is raw potential. Transform that potential into reality through truthful words and find the meaning through the wilful adoption of responsibility ~ Jordan Peterson

[@JohnSmith-ti3oy]

My new goal in life is to find the tee shirt he is wearing and buy it.

[@he_is_a_GOOBER_dont_disrespect]

That should be your new goal of the day on google. Raise the bar john. Bloody hell

[@away69]

And mine is to answer to your request. It also glows in the dark which is pretty cool! starryskiesshop.org/glow-in-the-dark-starry-night-einstein-tee-341

[@adamsandlerasa]

This is your quest! To find the holy shirt!

[@marcmcdowell9649]

It's called a males dress shirt or a button shirt you uncultured swine, good day Sir.

[@PrecioustheMovie1]

@@away69 you’re a badass Carlos

[@prisonss]

Love the ones your responsible for, help the ones in need and work to live and not live to work

[@stoicfreediver]

Excellent 👍🏼

[@waedjradi]

Probably the best podcast channel on KZbin.

[@josesbox9555]

To give life meaning.

[@Yoko4797]

seems like creating a problem yourself then solving it!

[@GasSoakedRag]

mind blown.

[@nacho9mg]

To Care and to Live Free

[@PrOBOY251]

Cultivation of Character!

[@theflyingcrud]

So true! I think the natural outcome of that is an inevitable desire to improve life for yourself and others

[@joshuamoonshine324]

AND YOU CHANGE THE WORLD BY CHANGING YOURSELF HAPPENS EVERYDAY THROUGH YOUR THOUGHTS.

[@dex4308]

Spend as much time as you can doing the things you want to do. Period.

[@alanraymundo]

To learn everything I can possibly learn

[@analogmatrix1442]

La vida es para los que la viven

[@nitin9922]

Happiness without regret once in a while.

[@tadghsmith1457]

Are we lucky or are the ones that were never born luckier? It all depends on your perspective. We have the potential for joy, but also great suffering. It's debatable if the amount of happiness there is in life is actually outweighs the suffering, at least for a lot of people.

[@analogmatrix1442]

Life is for the living

[@analogmatrix1442]

@@jaredmartin7040 please do. people need people the culture and society does not help that. If your depression is mental see a shrink if it’s hormonal take some hormones/drugs. If all else fails just lean into it and rest. No need to make people suffer.

[@analogmatrix1442]

@@jaredmartin7040 eeyore is that you? side note Winnie the Pooh characters are based on the human psyche and our shortcomings as humans. Guess who’s who

[@poppymargaret1580]

beautiful

[@Atenejin]

The first part of his answer is quite "small" IMHO. Of course, Lex put it back into the proper scale by mentioning the example of stardust ending up asking questions about the meaning of life.

[@nickbosman5]

“I did not say in the broadcast, ‘There is a God’, I said ‘I do not need to believe in God; I know’. Which does not mean: I do know a certain God (Zeus, Jahwe, Allah, the Trinitarian God, etc.) but rather: I do know that I am obviously confronted with a factor unknown in itself, which I call 'God' in consensu omnium (‘quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus creditur’). I remember Him, I evoke Him, whenever I use His name overcome by anger or by fear, whenever I involuntarily say: ‘Oh God’. That happens when I meet somebody or something stronger than myself. It is an apt name given to all overpowering emotions in my own psychical system subduing my conscious will and usurping control over myself. This is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans, and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse. In accordance with tradition I call the power of fate in this positive as well as negative aspect, and inasmuch as its origin is beyond my control, 'god', a 'personal god', since my fate means very much myself, particularly when it approaches me in the form of conscience as a vox Dei, with which I can even converse and argue. (We do and, at the same time, we know that we do. One is subject as well as object.) Yet I should consider it an intellectual immorality to indulge in the belief that my view of a god is the universal, metaphysical Being of the confessions or 'philosophies'. I do neither commit the impertinence of a hypostasis, nor of an arrogant qualification such as: 'God can only be good'. Only my experience can be good or evil, but I know that the superior will is based upon a foundation which transcends human imagination. Since I know of my collision with a superior will in my own psychical system, I know of God, and if I should venture the illegitimate hypostasis of my image, I would say, of a God beyond good and evil, just as much dwelling in myself as everywhere else: Deus est circulus cuius centrum est ubique, cuis circumferentia vero nusquam.” Yours, etc., Carl G. Jung

[@analogmatrix1442]

Jeebus... you’re my constant.

[@kennethelledge3522]

Here we are talking about beauty, complexity, life, story, truth... and the best answer this brilliant man can give is a contradiction to all of them. There is no language if there is no objective meaning. We are waisting words and ideas if the meaning of life is merely what we make of it. To say it is so is to deny beauty, complexity, life, story, truth, etc. Nauseating really.

[@kootdirker2448]

The meaning of life is to LIVE your life

[@stopallwarwithbubblebots5815]

42

[@bradgaines]

There is a meaning to life while we exist. But overall, there is no meaning to life.

[@eblgraphics]

This all makes sence if you put a side the UFOs that are constantelly flying around the earth at about 11,800 mph. Other than that yep we are top dog lol...

[@zopodeffa]

time for tom campbell, lex!

[@glencecil293]

That's like the beginning of the Bible

[@TLSARTWORK]

Yep it's complex. Next video.

[@yirin906]

There's no meaning of life. Just simple is live. Live and death are mix each other. - Albert Einstein -

[@reddeadrene7552]

Outdated quote

[@isaaclaflam1321]

Could life have another definition on another planet? "No that doesn't make sense".

[@luvr381]

"No lives matter." - the Universe

[@loneskum]

Yeah but whats really the meaning of life

[@gandalfo]

There isn’t one. At best you can make one for yourself. That’s what he’s saying.

[@ryelith]

Just be.

[@loneskum]

@@ryelith what? Artist or conquer? Just me? Who am I? What should define me? Il hang up now and let you talk. You arent wrong, Thats all we really can do

[@ryelith]

@@loneskum It's beauty is that it explains itself. We exist, things are, the only difference is your perspective

[@alexhormann8931]

Life has ANY meaning. :)

[@user-ix9by9rm5l]

Разговор двух русских людей. Без сомнений и стеснений сразу: "В чем смысл жизни?". Imagine what perspective cosmologist have when he answering.

[@joshuamoonshine324]

MEANING OF LIFE IS TO FIND OUT WHO YOU REALLY ARE.

[@LuckyLogics01]

and since we came from stars, learning about the universe and how it became is essentially learning about who "you' are

[@victorbaker4585]

Too be, then comes not to be.

[@paulaction5957]

Music is the meaning of life

[@JohnTaylor-fh4et]

The only meaning in Capitalism is forced buying shit & no time. Easy to say from your timeline. A beautiful universe, we're all being rushed thru, for profits.

[@Nico18_]

WE A R E N A T U R E

[@alanconlan8337]

Read my book, NOW IS LIFE, if you truly want to know.

[@Alexk20066]

There is no meaning. Only physical causes

[@ungtown]

*takes hit of blunt*

[@EXoTjC]

Mathematically,, the meaning of life is 1 and 0 simultaneously. There, I gave you the actual answer, as you woud find in the answer-key section of your math texts! These people are just blinds groping in the dark, playing with matter, and going nowhere, creating more questions than answers. The answer was always known, but you have to do the work to get to the answer, experientially realize the answer. Thats where shit gets real.

[@mdarey13]

A physicist explaining the meaning of life is like a blind guy picking out my clothes.

[@alexhormann8931]

Life has ANY meaning.

[@Ambrose_Heria]

Meaning of Life?... Empty and Meaningless

[@joshuamoonshine324]

LEARN TP CONTROL YOUR OWN THOUGHT AND IT WILL HAVE MEANING

[@emmajaneofhawaii7867]

LEX. It’s now THE ELON VIRUS.

[@theflashdcuniverse]

Invite Christians

[@johnnyjohnjohn4216]

Jesus Christ, just read 'Becoming the Sphere' instead of rambling.