>take up the responsibility of prescribing meaning to whatever ignites your emotional circuitry
Yes, most normal people can do that. Nihilists are nihilists because they can't. They're not teenagers taking it up because of hormones and to seem cool. They genuinely do not have what it takes to find meaning in life. You can judge them for that, but it's not their fault.
So about this "consciousness" and "soul/spirit" bullshit. Let's put it into perspective for the love of fuck
Henry Scott
Lincoln Carter
>Deja Vu
Pattern recognition
>coincidences
Pattern recognition
>dreams
Memory
>daily life
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Thomas Wood
If you weren't so unintelligent you'd realize the brain's capability to create hallucinations \ dreams so vivid they can make you experience jumping out of your body with no relation to reality is more impressive than needlessly tying that experience to physical reality.