Meaningless Universe

A Meaningless Universe is a universe that is devoid of objective utility function.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Proven Meaningless Universe to being a Likely Meaningless Universe, supported by a meaningless universe theory.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Meaningful Universe.
• See: Game Without Winners or Losers, Absurdism, Meaning of Life Theory, Meaning (Existential), Subjectivity, Existentialism, Meaning of Life.

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References

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_(existential) Retrieved:2016-10-19.
  • In existentialism, meaning is understood as the worth of life. Meaning in existentialism is descriptive ; therefore it is unlike typical, prescriptive conceptions of "the meaning of life”.Due to the methods of existentialism, prescriptive or declarative statements about meaning are unjustified. Meaning is something only for an individual, it has a home only in one person. The verb "to mean" implies something exists to be taken or learned from something else; and since subjects mean different things to every individual, meaning is purely subjective. Thus it is 'subjective' or should be understood to have an 'anti-system' or 'anti-answer' sensibility.

2014

• (Allen, 2014) ⇒ Woody Allen. (2014).
  • QUOTE: That’s all you can do! You get up, you can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, by the movies, by the nonsense. Can I get my kid into this private school? Will this girl go out with me Saturday night? Can I think of an ending for the third act of my play? Am I going to get the promotion in my office? All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it’s completely meaningless, and to be honest, my characters portray this feeling.

2005

• (Blackmore, 2005) ⇒ S. J . Blackmore. (2005). “I Take Illegal Drugs for Inspiration." Daily Telegraph 21
  • QUOTE: When the discoverer of nitrous oxide, Sir Humphrey Davy, took it himself in 1799, he exclaimed: “Nothing exists but thoughts”. Others, too, have found their views profoundly shifted. It seems quite extraordinary to me that so simple a molecule can change one's philosophy, even for a few moments, yet it seems it can. Why does the gas make you laugh? Perhaps it is a reaction to a brief appreciation of that terrifying cosmic joke - that we are just shifting patterns in a meaningless universe.

1969

• (Lavrin, 1969) ⇒ Janko Lavrin. (1969). “A Note on Nietzsche and Dostoevsky.” The Russian Review 28, no. 2
  • QUOTE: … … Does man's existence also contain transcendence, or is he nothing more than a specimen of the forlornness or Geworfenheit (to use Heidegger's expression) without any sense or meaning in an equally senseless and meaningless universe …

1606

• (Shakespeare, 1606) ⇒ William Shakespeare. (1606). “The Tragedy of Macbeth."
  • To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
    Signifying nothing.

    (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 19-28)

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