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1 Rationality & The Meaning of Life Selmer Bringsjord Are Humans Rational? 10/2/17:
2 Part I done (Test 1 back Thurs), so now, to debates & discussion
3 Sources/Targets SEP entry: Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus; Ecclesiastes Kahneman Chapter 38: Thinking About Life Seligman Chapter 14: Meaning & Purpose The Brain & the Meaning of Life by Thagard, reviewed by Bringsjord & Bringsjord Nozick, and his argument (the only the infinite will do; Philosophical Investigations, Chapter 6: Philosophy and th Meaning of Life ) The Meaning of Life in the news
4 The Question (SEP)
5 The Question (SEP) Q
6 The Question (SEP) Q What, if anything, makes a (human) life meaningful?
7 The Question (SEP) Q What, if anything, makes a (human) life meaningful? Q*
8 The Question (SEP) Q What, if anything, makes a (human) life meaningful? Q* What, if anything, makes a (human) life meaningful despite the fact that we all shortly die?
9 The Question (SEP) Q What, if anything, makes a (human) life meaningful? Q* What, if anything, makes a (human) life meaningful despite the fact that we all shortly die? Conceptual Constraints on the Investigation
10 The Question (SEP) Q What, if anything, makes a (human) life meaningful? Q* What, if anything, makes a (human) life meaningful despite the fact that we all shortly die? Conceptual Constraints on the Investigation If there is something that does indeed make life meaningful, in light of what The Experience Machine tells us, it s conceptually distinct from happiness, from pleasure, from moral rightness, and from worth-living.
11 The Experience Machine
12 The Experience Machine entails
13 The Experience Machine entails If there is something that does indeed make life meaningful, it s conceptually distinct from happiness, from pleasure, from moral rightness, and from worth-living.
14 The Experience Machine entails Conceptual Constraints on the Investigation If there is something that does indeed make life meaningful, it s conceptually distinct from happiness, from pleasure, from moral rightness, and from worth-living.
15 Claim 1
16 Claim 1 Only steadfastly rational thinking (in my sense of rational) about Q/Q* could yield an answer.
17 Claim 1 Only steadfastly rational thinking (in my sense of rational) about Q/Q* could yield an answer. Claim 2
18 Claim 1 Only steadfastly rational thinking (in my sense of rational) about Q/Q* could yield an answer. Claim 2 But then on Kahneman s view/pt, if Claim 1 is true, we can t find an answer unless he and his friends help us (& they haven t been of much help so far).
19 SEP entry: Sources/Targets Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus; Ecclesiastes Kahneman Chapter 38: Thinking About Life Seligman Chapter 14: Meaning & Purpose The Brain & the Meaning of Life by Thagard, reviewed by Bringsjord & Bringsjord Nozick, and his argument. The Meaning of Life in the news
20 SEP entry: Sources/Targets Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus; Ecclesiastes Kahneman Chapter 38: Thinking About Life Seligman Chapter 14: Meaning & Purpose The Brain & the Meaning of Life by Thagard, reviewed by Bringsjord & Bringsjord Nozick, and his argument. The Meaning of Life in the news
21 Kahneman: We re not rational in that sense.
22 Kahneman: We re not rational in that sense. This is a silly definition of rationality.
23 Kahneman: We re not rational in that sense. Says who? This is a silly definition of rationality.
24 Kahneman: We re not rational in that sense. Besides, this is wrong: You don t need to adhere to any rules of logic to have consistent beliefs. Says who? This is a silly definition of rationality.
25 Kahneman: We re not rational in that sense. Besides, this is wrong: You don t need to adhere to any rules of logic to have consistent beliefs. Says who? This is a silly definition of rationality. So, people aren t irrationalk, but they need help making more rational judgments and decisions. Hmm. So people need help in trying to answer Q/Q* and you re going to provide that?
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31 How about the Rationality Spreading Team? 12
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37 Claim 3
38 Claim 3 Our lives today are hardly made meaningful by the possibility that a future generation of beings descended from us have some god-like properties.
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40 Claim 4
41 Claim 4 While work, love, and play can be very enjoyable (no one disputes that!), this simple fact in no way (recall the conceptual constraints & the moral of The Experience Machine) entails that they make life meaningful (as opposed to enjoyable and worth-living).
42 Nozick:
43 Nozick: There seems to be no limit to the flimsiness of what philosophers will grasp at to disarm the fact of death. (PE, 580)
44 E.g. Victor Frankl:
45 E.g. Victor Frankl: What would our lives be like if they were not finite in time, but infinite? If we were immortal, we could legitimately postpone every action forever. It would be of no consequence whether or not we did a thing now; every act might just as well be done tomorrow or the day after or a year from now or ten years hence. But in the face of death as absolute finis to our future and boundary to our possibility, we are under the imperative of utilizing our lifetimes to the utmost, not letting the singular opportunities wholse finite sum constitutes the whole of life pass by unused.
46 E.g. Victor Frankl: What would our lives be like if they were not finite in time, but infinite? If we were immortal, we could legitimately postpone every action forever. It would be of no consequence whether or not we did a thing now; every act might just as well be done tomorrow or the day after or a year from now or ten years hence. But in the face of death as absolute finis to our future and boundary to our possibility, we are under the imperative of utilizing our lifetimes to the utmost, not letting the singular opportunities wholse finite sum constitutes the whole of life pass by unused. Uh, actually, I d like to do an infinite number of things, each of which takes a finite amount of time.
47 Rationality & The Meaning of Life in the News
48 Rationality & The Meaning of Life in the News
49 Rationality & The Meaning of Life in the News
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