''Our sentience and other forms of sentience throughout this...

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    ''Our sentience and other forms of sentience throughout this universe is perhaps the greatest fruit of this unfolding universe. But it is all meaningless if somebody as learned as DBT9 should absorb so much knowledge and then blink out into nothingness. If you are remembered after death, that too, is meaningless.''

    Even we assume the existence of eternal life, as yet unproven, this is still the one and only time that we live this life here and now, so if it is meaningless here and now without the idea of eternal life, what you do and how you live your life still has little meaning because the craving for eternal life is the element that imparts some sense of meaning in what is presumably an onerous existence, a daily grind without meaning .

    Assuming eternal life, this brief lifetime is lost in eternity anyway, just like in the sense that your infant self is lost to you here and now, so whatever meaning your infant self or your child self felt in life then is specific to that self, time and place....because as you are here and now, you hardly remember anything about the life you lived then as virtually a different person.
 
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