Deus ex machina
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Deus ex machina
We need “devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable. Without it, we have only our desires to guide us, and they are fleeting, capricious, and insatiable.”
Timothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
If we have reached the simulation’s end-game, as Baudrillard would almost certainly argue we are with AGI or even its Companion facsimile, and it has not created meaning, then we can put technology in its right place as something that provides means and get on with the hard work of creating our own meaning.
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Packy • Means and Meaning
His logotherapy framework posits that humans thrive when they have a “why” to live for, often forged in hardship. A life too comfortable risks stripping us of that “why,” leaving us adrift like so many of us today.