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>>15258993
What is life?
>What is life-lecture: Jeremy England
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e91D5UAz-f4
>No Turning Back: The Nonequilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics of becoming (and remaining) Life-Like
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=10cVVHKCRWw

What is the meaning?
noun: meaning; plural noun: meanings
what is meant by a word, text, concept, or action.
"the meaning of the word “supermarket”"
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definition
sense
explanation
denotation
connotation
interpretation
elucidation
explication
implied or explicit significance.
"he gave me a look full of meaning"
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significance
sense
signification
import
thrust
drift
gist
implication
tenor
message
essence
substance
purport
intention
expressiveness
eloquence
implications
intimations
insinuations
important or worthwhile quality; purpose.
"this can lead to new meaning in the life of older people"
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value
validity
worth

What is the purpose of life?
To dissipate heat, that is, to allow energy to flow out of matter.
So, change, movement.

>>15212058
>I trust the same consciousness that tells me white light is high intensity and low color, that tells me that I saw a mouse run across the floor, that tells me that my wife is definitely cheating on me , and that there's a pool of water on the desert highway, this pathological liar called consciousness tells me I have responsibility for all my decisions and that I'm the master of my destiny, this liar will tell me so I will believe it.

OH RADIO
TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU KNOW
I WILL BELIEVE YOUR EVERY WORD
JUST TELL ME SO

>>15141714
D I S S I P A T I O N

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jeremy+England

>>15116507
Yep he's very based.
Watch Jeremy England's lectures on YouTube to see why the Bomb is a natural extension of our purpose as living assemblages, to dissipate heat.

>>15109123
Technically it's a process of cosmic heat dissipation driving adaptation.
See Jeremy England's lectures on yt

>>15105260
Not Buddhism. Buddhism has nonsense like souls that reincarnate, and being saved.

Ligotti on Buddhism:
>There is nothing more futile than to consciously look for something to save you. But consciousness makes this fact seem otherwise. Consciousness makes it seem as if (1) there is something to do; (2) there is somewhere to go; (3) there is something to be; (4) there is someone to know. This is what makes consciousness the parent of all horrors, the thing that makes us try to do something, go somewhere, be something, and know someone, such as ourselves, so that we can escape our MALIGNANTLY USELESS being and think that being alive is all right rather than that which should not be.

I mean to realize a person (you, me), is an assemblage. Like a dust devil. Cold wind hits hot wind, a vortex forms, picking up dust and leaves. The dust devil moves around, seems to be a coherent thing with purpose and directionality. We can even be taken in by it's complexity and think for a second it has intelligence.
But it's just dust and wind. That's not to say it isn't really interesting or anything.
But it's the consequence of large processes and has no individuality or agency.
And that's you, that's me, that's everyone.
It really feels like consciousness is special, but it's a process of modeling attention in an assemblage that exists, in the bigger picture, to dissipate heat.
Consciousness is a liar. If it lies to you about white light (we percieve it as low color and high intensity, while we know intellectually through experiment that it's the muddiest mix of colors), why do we trust it to tell us what it is for itself?