On Our Cosmic Insignificance

05 October 2017

Many people learn about the inconceivably large universe and start to doubt the significance of human life. Some philosophers have argued that this sentiment is actually just confused. An amazingAeon尼克·休斯的一篇文章为这种想法的动机指明了另一条道路。在评估了不同的观点后,他最终提出了一个解释,似乎很好地解释了我们的直觉。然后,在文章的最后,休斯提出了我们如何克服这种虚无主义思维。

Here's the full article:https://aeon.co/essays/just-a-recent-blip-in-the-cosmos-are-humans-insignificant