Eugine_Nier comments on [SEQ RERUN] Existential Angst Factory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 July 2012 10:51:15PM 0 points [-]

In this article, Eliezer implies that it's the lack of objective morality which makes life seem meaningless under a materialist reductionist model of the universe. Is this the usual source of existential angst? For me, existential angst always came from "life not having a purpose";

If I understand Eliezer's conception of morality correctly, he doesn't distinguish between these two things.

Comment author: JQuinton 10 July 2012 04:23:31PM 0 points [-]

For me, existential angst occurs in both a materialistic/reductionist world and a supernatural/theistic world. I'm not sure that objective morality would have made any difference on why god exists, and why god's existence isn't meaningless. And if god's existence has no purpose, I reasoned, then neither does ours (under a theistic framework).

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