The dominant view in science-based thinking that we humans are irrelevant to the universe. We are minuscule. “A speck on a speck on a speck”. Our impact on the universe is negligible. We don’t matter.
Some see it as freedom. Others a curse. A gateway to Nihilism. If all our actions are meaningless, what is the point of existence. Why exist at all?
Yet the perspective of the universe is only one perspective. In fact, if the universe is dead and no other life exists - which, I will point out, is the only assumption we can make based off the evidence, even if “mathematically there must be life”.
Either way, in an infinite universe, by definition there are infinite perspectives. And in an immoral universe, lacking any sort of hierarchy but those we create ourselves to understand it, each perspective is equal. It is not the case that “the universal perspective” trumps the perspective of you or I. Our perspective are just as valid, because there is no hierarchy of validity in an amoral infinite universe.
Thus, if you matter to me. Or I matter to you. We Matter. There is meaning. It is not a lie, nor is it a twisting of words. It is just a fact. We Matter.
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“And that’s when it hit me. That it was not a lie to say that Anna matters. Or that Mary matters. Or that—hold on to your seat—you matter, Reader. And so it must be with humans, with us. From the perspective of the stars or infinity or some eugenic dream of perfection, sure, one human life might not seem to matter. It might be a speck on a speck on a speck, soon gone. But that was just one of infinite perspectives.” “To get stuck on a single hierarchy is to miss the bigger picture, the messy truth of nature, the ‘whole machinery of life.‘” “In tangible, concrete ways human beings matter to this planet, to society, to one another. It was not a lie to say so.”
Connections
A Horizon of Context Required To Equate Value
Reference
Book: Why Fish Don’t Exist Author: Lulu Miller Location: 1801-1816