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The Purpose of Our Lives Could be to Give Love to Objects
What if the purpose of our lives is to give love and intimacy to all the objects around us, and what if those objects can be transformed by it? This thought experiment leads to the idea that maybe our purpose is to imbue as many things with love as possible.
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The speaker discusses the possibility of an energy field that transforms objects that are touched and given intimacy, contrasting it with the idea of traditional metaphysical views of the world where things are objects that have no similarity to humans.
2:48:12 - 2:51:11 (02:58)
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The speaker discusses the possibility of an energy field that transforms objects that are touched and given intimacy, contrasting it with the idea of traditional metaphysical views of the world where things are objects that have no similarity to humans.
ChapterThe Purpose of Our Lives Could be to Give Love to Objects
Episode#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Peter Wang hypothesizes that the purpose of our lives could be to imbue as many things with love as possible; he discusses the idea of "malicious incompetence" and the scale of human organizations.
2:51:12 - 2:52:48 (01:36)
Summary
Peter Wang hypothesizes that the purpose of our lives could be to imbue as many things with love as possible; he discusses the idea of "malicious incompetence" and the scale of human organizations.