From the founder of TED: “most scientists would tell you that human beings just aren’t that significant. We are just this little speck of dust on a random planet, in an obscure part of the universe. David Deutsch says that’s wrong. He actually says people matter, and the reason they matter is that they are incubating something: knowledge. In David’s view, knowledge is a force of almost unlimited power in the universe and also a force that will determine our future.”
David Deutsch: “We can survive and we can fail to survive. But it depends, not on chance, but on whether we create the relevant knowledge in time. The overwhelming majority of all species and all civilizations that have ever existed are now history. And if we want to be the exception to that, then logically, our only hope is to make use of the one feature that distinguishes our species and our civilization from all the others; namely, our ability to create new explanations, new knowledge, to be a hub of existence”
Perhaps the thing that humans are incubating,
knowledge, can provide answers to the question of meaning of existence itself. If it so worthwhile, then perhaps incubating knowledge itself is meaning.
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