we are nothing more than “throwaway survival machines,” if our lives have no other consequence than the replication of our genes, if life is just a “brief spotlight” and then we’re nothing for the rest of eternity, if the universe is empty and cold and purposeless, if (as Dawkins has written elsewhere) the “natural state” of the world is one of “starvation and misery” (18) and there’s no other causal force in the universe except blind chance — if this is all true, then no amount of complexity and intricacy can compensate us for it.
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