Meaning of Life | Daniel Schmachtenberger and Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: • Daniel Schmachtenberge...
Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
Ground News: ground.news/lex
NetSuite: netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour
Four Sigmatic: foursigmatic.c... and use code LexPod to get up to 60% off
Magic Spoon: magicspoon.com... and use code LEX to get $5 off
BetterHelp: betterhelp.com... to get 10% off
GUEST BIO:
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a philosopher and founding member of The Consilience Project.
PODCAST INFO:
Podcast website: lexfridman.com...
Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2lwqZIr
Spotify: spoti.fi/2nEwCF8
RSS: lexfridman.com...
Full episodes playlist: • Lex Fridman Podcast
Clips playlist: • Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
SOCIAL:
Twitter: / lexfridman
LinkedIn: / lexfridman
Facebook: / lexfridman
Instagram: / lexfridman
Medium: / lexfridman
Reddit: / lexfridman
Support on Patreon: / lexfridman

[@matti4010]

Very good notion from Daniel! The age-old question "what´s the meaning of life?" has a built-in assumption that life has some kind of instrumental value instead of intrinsic value in and of itself. The question excludes the existentialist viewpoint that the "meaning" of life is life itself. As Albert Camus said, "the literal meaning of life is whatever you´re doing that prevents you from killing yourself."

[@captain26]

7:26 - Loved Lex's shout out to A.I. and mic drop moment. Loved this entire clip actually.

[@jeffhalmos7981]

"Hey, look at that round thing." "No, that's a spheroid with intrinsic potentiality grounded in externalities." "Ya, a round thing."

[@RosaLeeJean]

Being,doing,becoming...right on point,what a relieve😊

[@tejasn3835]

greatest perfect answer anyone has given on the meaning of life

[@tejasn3835]

@Stratos I which Nietzsche should I start with

[@swaydam]

Our practical purpose: Enjoy and lessen our suffering. Give joy and lessen suffering of others. expand our ability to enjoy and lessen suffering for ourselves and others

[@GreenChilliD]

There are three choices in this life. Be good. Get good. Or give up.

[@tonytootuff8772]

I like him he knows what's hes talking about purpose is so small relative to your point in reality!!!! Hmm

[@jJust_NO_]

ech if you contemplate on this hard enough there are two ways you could go into: nihilism and the 'middle way'

[@tonytootuff8772]

I contemplate things like this often actually it help me better my understanding of the forces that are at work that are like the hidden hand guiding us ! Ghosts shadow people.. miracles... the better you can wrap your mind around these concepts you can better yourself and humanity

[@realsouthernmamayall8711]

This was a beautiful explanation

[@tonytootuff8772]

Why thank you ☺🌹👀

[@LOGYBEATS]

this guy gets it

[@roymillsjnr5172]

its finding your own way what is of value to you and it can change daily ,experience and enjoyment and passing through it without causing to much damage or footprint.to simply exist day to day enjoy that day because we cant put time on it we can be snatched anytime.we are just intelligence mechanisms for the universe in itself.👍

[@zyrrhos]

A.C. Ping's series of books BE, DO, FAITH are all about this. Great compact reads.

[@chilkatcharles9228]

This feels like moral relativism but I’m listening.

[@Andrew.baltazar]

Sounds like it, but it's metamodernism

[@jJust_NO_]

i love you. I like your wordings huehue. Im at this juncture of trying to put words onto my knowings yet I find it hard to sew them coherently.

[@EMTBLife]

Being, doing and becoming from fullness rather than from filling the existential void. So, starts with self then to others and in becoming I guess we transcend! Or that’s the Buddha teachings or Maslow in humanism.

[@jethropeters4686]

Man, i am watching this video 3 times in a row. Such beautiful insights!

[@_stoykov6953]

Improve yourself and benefit others. There is no greater meaning than this.

[@Mp19parkour]

Sometimes trying to help others ends up causing the opposite.

[@drool3696]

@@Mp19parkour Then learn from the mistake and become better to help others...?

[@davidhoffman6980]

The thumbnail: Meaning of Life! The video: meaningful life.

[@samuelvilz]

Yess thank you 💚

[@TruthSayer5589]

The meaning of life, its purpose, our purpose, is sealed within the conceptional understanding of where we come from, why we’re here, and what we’re here to do. Later, to be confirmed scientifically, and ratified by repeatable and verifiable direct experience through training, taking advantage of the diaspora of wisdom teachings and technology, that was so discreet, even 50 years ago. The secret, if you will, is simple and elegant, it includes everything, and excludes nothing. Not that this knowledge will make the human experience any easier. But, it’ll bring clarity to what actually is; something that’s sorely lacking today.

[@johnathanfannon6602]

I love this answer

[@GDog-xl6kr]

I’m guessing the majority would be being, compared to doing

[@eonryan8491]

2:49 6:28

[@wcbbsd]

Work consume be silent die. - your purpose. Statists.

[@ivtec4fun55]

I concur.

[@ternakcrypto1]

am waiting charles H

[@iananderson8288]

5:30

[@Andrew.baltazar]

Convinced Daniel is one of those thinkers that's born a couple hundred years too early. Just wish he had a catchier name...

[@benellison5668]

Answer the question pls

[@samuelvilz]

I feel like he did :) In what way do you experience it differently?

[@franksu3420]

In short no meaning , meaning itself is not the point, because it all comes down to personal experience and understanding, why every thing has meaning ? It is just whatever it is.

[@Fuddy23]

Monty Python has already answered this ....lol

[@kocahmet1]

lex asking the good questions. but, that was far from the answer to the question.

[@nunomiguelcruz4596]

Never underestimate the power of denial

[@mattyduncan4679]

Life is a selection algorithm that God fed his own spirit through. Each of us is simply an electron of matter of Gods energy flowing through a circuit where we are presented with choices. The total sum of our choices, good or bad, decided whether our borrowed conciousness is returned to God or permanently deleted.

[@WhtMike2006]

Whoa. That’s wild. I dig it.

[@imsorrythankyouplease7613]

VERY close to what I’ve said the meaning of life is: make good choices.

[@tomas_suros]

Precisely.

[@thewalkingoriginal3478]

And the question still remains... Why did any of this even need to be in the first place?

[@imsorrythankyouplease7613]

@@thewalkingoriginal3478 The universe (God) wanted to look at itself. If only one thing exists, there cannot be any interaction. The only way to know yourself is through interaction and observation of how the other object reacted. So God, as the Singularity, thought “what if there were multiple objects in multiple positions for multiple moments in time?” That was the beginning of the space time continuum and the universe. If the physical universe was a singularity before the Big Bang, something from beyond the physical world must have caused the Big Bang (to cause is to interact). So what is outside the physical universe? Thoughts, spirits, God, souls, ideas, and essence. Those are my thoughts on why materialistic monism implies a less satisfying explanation of existence than some kind of dualism.

[@dustonparrett4137]

Get a job. Dude will tell you.

[@djlethal]

i have no clue what this guy is saying

[@MovedBySound]

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6

[@Roosyer]

Instead of trying to sound smart, why doesn’t he just answer the question?

[@goodfella7771]

Never trust a guy with that kind of two-tone beard

[@fuckgoogle1499]

I see two bs artists

[@RJavier007]

Most boring guest so far

[@hayneshuntingcom]

faster horses, younger women, older whiskey and more money you ever seen. Or not