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When scientific materialism makes you feel meaningless

I keep reading about how we're just atoms and chemicals and it should be freeing but instead it makes me feel empty and meaningless, like nothing I do matters.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The intellectual acceptance of reductive materialism conflicts with the human need for existential significance.

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