Dave Evans

I'm a realist.

I live in reality.

I notice people think the meaning thing is pretty important.

So I'm just going to start there.

Why might meaning have been important?

Well, that's actually going to depend a little bit on your cosmology.

Right.

I happen to be the theist on the team.

My partner, Bill, is the Nietzsche appreciating existential atheist.

So you're going to get a different answer.

But I think even evolutionarily, if in fact that which is energizing evolution at all, there's some trajectory here.

and that collaboration and community and persistence sustain that, then let's keep it interesting, not just keep it virile.

So I can move along.

And so if there's something in me that wants to lean more deeply into my own life and lean more deeply into our collective life,

then that's going to keep the community going.

The community is going to keep the genome going.

Almost.

I'm suggesting that if we added more aliveness to the definition of meaning and then give tools to acquire that, then their access to meanings are going to go up.

Right.

Right now, people, you know, it's like your food groups.