Alex O'Connor
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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I think everybody is.
Otherwise, you literally wouldn't be able to do anything.
But it's a bit foggy to me what psychologically speaking on a personal level that fundamental motivation actually is.
It's a semantic thing, but that's why – it depends what you mean by the word purpose.
Not on a grand sense.
I'm quite agnostic.
I don't like to psychologize people.
I don't know.
I have no idea what sense of meaning you have in your life.
I mean, for me, I'm just motivated to try and find out the truth.
No, I just don't know you that well.
I mean, I don't know.
And also it depends what you mean, right?
Because you'll say that you have a, if you say that you're a 10, like you have this, you used the phrase earlier, sense, a sense of meaning in life.
And because you're talking about this from an empirical standpoint of whether people report having a sense of meaning, whereas I think that Greg is probably talking about
literally speaking, whether there is actually in fact a real meaning, whether or not people sense it or not, you could say that you have a 10 out of 10.
And Greg could say, well, it's great that you feel that way, but it's misguided because the purpose that you have identified in your life is the wrong one.
And so to me, the important question is not so much whether you subjectively report feeling like you have purpose in life, but whether that purpose is grounded in something real and true.
I don't think they're unanswerable.
Good.
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