Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Meaning of Life to a “Six-and-Three-Quarter”-Year-Old Boy

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http://www.alternet.org/media/neil-degrasse-tyson-explains-meaning-life



Last night Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke to a crowd at Wilbur Theatre in Boston. There a boy aged “six-and-three-quarters” asked the astrophysicist a deeply profound question: “What is the meaning of life?”


“If you’re asking those questions now, you’re going to be the deepest thinking adult there ever was,” Tyson began. He then went onto explain to the best of his ability.

‘So, what is the meaning of life? I think people ask that question on the assumption that ‘meaning’ is something you can look for and go, ‘I found it. Here’s the meaning. I’ve been looking for.’”

Tyson made it clear that the meaning of life isn’t something you find, but rather what you create.

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1. In Other Words, Neil deGrasse Tyson Is An Existentialist.

Methinks.

Not that slapping a label on someone captures the depth and complexity of that person in their totality.

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2. Why does everyone have to have a label? People are complicated beings. One label does not

fit the totality of a person.