Doctor Mike

It's like...

Yeah, but I wanted to smoke, right?

I wanted to drink.

It felt good to do all this stuff, but the argument is you're going to be more fully alive if you don't do that thing.

And that's a choice that we can actually make.

That's a big, big truth that's important that I teach my students.

That's a form of control.

And the reason for that is because nihilism, so they're reading Nietzsche.

They're reading also Sprach Zarathustra.

They're reading the gay science.

They're reading this classic God is dead kind of stuff that gives them a huge sense of power, a huge sense of philosophical power.

there's basically three ways of understanding human life.

We have an essence.

We have existence.

We exist.

I mean, you and I are sitting here.

Maybe Elon is right and we're living in a simulation, but okay, you know, let's just assume that's not right and we actually exist.

And everybody watching us exists.

We have an essence, which is sort of the meaning of our life.

There's two major schools that have traditionally existed.