Jack Symes

I think, as you mentioned earlier, you're quite a fan of these pantheistic views where the world is moving towards a purposeful end, which is technological progress or the flourishing of all its creatures and the like. So if you hold that view, then, yeah, it looks like life can have a meaning if there is a consciousness underlying the physical reality that we engage with.

I think, as you mentioned earlier, you're quite a fan of these pantheistic views where the world is moving towards a purposeful end, which is technological progress or the flourishing of all its creatures and the like. So if you hold that view, then, yeah, it looks like life can have a meaning if there is a consciousness underlying the physical reality that we engage with.

then, yeah, if that's moving towards some ultimate destination as a process, then it can be meaningful. But there are problems with that view, too. So I don't want to cash out and go, that is the view. Hence why I embrace the agnosticism.

then, yeah, if that's moving towards some ultimate destination as a process, then it can be meaningful. But there are problems with that view, too. So I don't want to cash out and go, that is the view. Hence why I embrace the agnosticism.

then, yeah, if that's moving towards some ultimate destination as a process, then it can be meaningful. But there are problems with that view, too. So I don't want to cash out and go, that is the view. Hence why I embrace the agnosticism.

This view is pretty close to, I think you've had it on the show before, Philip Goff, who's my colleague at Durham. He's currently defending a view just like this, right? He thinks that the fundamental nature of the world is consciousness that is identical to what we should describe as God. And that this is a process by which we're becoming, making the world better.

This view is pretty close to, I think you've had it on the show before, Philip Goff, who's my colleague at Durham. He's currently defending a view just like this, right? He thinks that the fundamental nature of the world is consciousness that is identical to what we should describe as God. And that this is a process by which we're becoming, making the world better.

This view is pretty close to, I think you've had it on the show before, Philip Goff, who's my colleague at Durham. He's currently defending a view just like this, right? He thinks that the fundamental nature of the world is consciousness that is identical to what we should describe as God. And that this is a process by which we're becoming, making the world better.

And we have parts to play in that. And that's what constitutes a meaningful life. So I sort of got two problems.

And we have parts to play in that. And that's what constitutes a meaningful life. So I sort of got two problems.

And we have parts to play in that. And that's what constitutes a meaningful life. So I sort of got two problems.

Like the meaning there for Goff would be something like the world is in a better state of affairs than what it was before. And if you're contributing to the betterment of the world as a whole, then your life is meaningful. If you're sat on your ass not doing anything and you're taking away from the greatness of the world, then... your life isn't as meaningful as the person.

Like the meaning there for Goff would be something like the world is in a better state of affairs than what it was before. And if you're contributing to the betterment of the world as a whole, then your life is meaningful. If you're sat on your ass not doing anything and you're taking away from the greatness of the world, then... your life isn't as meaningful as the person.

Like the meaning there for Goff would be something like the world is in a better state of affairs than what it was before. And if you're contributing to the betterment of the world as a whole, then your life is meaningful. If you're sat on your ass not doing anything and you're taking away from the greatness of the world, then... your life isn't as meaningful as the person.

So if you're counting grass and I'm helping people, then my life is more meaningful in this metric because I'm making the world go towards what God wants its end to be.

So if you're counting grass and I'm helping people, then my life is more meaningful in this metric because I'm making the world go towards what God wants its end to be.

So if you're counting grass and I'm helping people, then my life is more meaningful in this metric because I'm making the world go towards what God wants its end to be.

They weren't the people I had in mind when I said people sat on their ass doing nothing. Well, they are sitting on their ass doing nothing though. Okay, I'll bite the bullet. I'll say there are more meaningful ways to live your life than being a Buddhist monk sat on your ass doing nothing. Although, here's the value of what they are doing, right?

They weren't the people I had in mind when I said people sat on their ass doing nothing. Well, they are sitting on their ass doing nothing though. Okay, I'll bite the bullet. I'll say there are more meaningful ways to live your life than being a Buddhist monk sat on your ass doing nothing. Although, here's the value of what they are doing, right?

They weren't the people I had in mind when I said people sat on their ass doing nothing. Well, they are sitting on their ass doing nothing though. Okay, I'll bite the bullet. I'll say there are more meaningful ways to live your life than being a Buddhist monk sat on your ass doing nothing. Although, here's the value of what they are doing, right?