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I look forward to listening to that podcast when I have time.
Though I notice that discussions of purpose and meaning, along with the related concepts of morality and the self, seem to polarize into "X is supernatural" versus "X is an illusion," with many rationalists advocating the latter. For example, Alex Rosenberg sides radically with the Illusionist camp in his book, The Atheist's Guide to Reality.
I can see why the self would seem illusory, though I consider the self an evolutionary kludge that doesn't work very well. Some intelligent redesign might turn the self into something arguably "real."
Yeah, I hear you about discussions of meaning and purpose becoming polarized. This is why the podcast, as you'll hear, focuses on the recent research on how to find a sense of meaning and purpose, without giving explicit and predefined answers. Here's a blog post I wrote with references.