- What the search for meaning actually means;
- How AI apps fulfill religious needs;
- Reasons why math scores are falling;
- Short items about Nick Fuentes, people fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk, Trump and the Saudi crown prince, and RFK Jr.’s miasma theory.
- Robert Reich on honor and shame.
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Thought for the day. It’s been long established that primitive human nature involved searching for patterns in the environment, to detect causes and effects that could be relied on for survival. And this in fact led to the development of the human mind, but also the detection of a lot of false positives, i.e. apparent causes that did not actually exist. Thus superstitions. And, now is my thought, the idea that every effect, even human existence, must have a cause, is the origin of the persistent human pursuit of “meaning”. What is the “meaning” of life? Perhaps that notion is a just a projection of the propensity to search for causes of *everything,* and in this case, as in many others, simply doesn’t exist. Perhaps we just are.
