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What is it like to be a nihilist? | Meaningness

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The end-state of nihilism is not suicide, but catatonia.

Snoozy bat courtesy Sally Dixon We all slip into nihilizing at times: refusing to see meanings that are right in front of us. Generally we pop right back out of it. Some people commit to nihilism, and describe themselves as nihilists. To accomplish nihilism would be to see absolutely everything as entirely meaningless all the time. What would that be like? It’s hard to imagine—just as it’s hard to imagine what it would be like to be a bat . We can reason it out, though—and the answer does fit the experience of nihilizing. This page discusses three plausible-seeming accounts of what accomplishi

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