Edward O. Wilson is simultaneously one of my intellectual heroes and someone who frustrates me enormously, and these conflicting feelings were once again stirred as I read his most recent book, The ...

How often do we stop to think about the meaning of life? If you’re like me, probably not much. Even though I may feel a vague sense of anxiety around how my life is unfolding and the inevitability of ...

As John Vervaeke notes, we are facing a meaning crisis, whereby we have lost a shared sense of what is true and good. This suggests that new maps of meaning are necessary. The Tree of Knowledge System ...

1. The reason we exist: The meaning of meaning -- Solving the riddle of the human species -- Evolution and our inner conflict -- 2. The unity of knowledge: The new enlightenment -- The all-importance ...

If you've ever stood at a party desperately wanting to discuss the meaning of existence while everyone else debates the ...

In the middle of a pinballing conversation about jazz and the mystery of existence, Wayne Shorter once asked, “This ever happen to you? You’re sitting by yourself and you start to drift off. And the ...

A new cosmic kung fu film explores the meaning of existence in alternate realities. By Dennis Overbye In 2009, two Stanford physicists, Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin, wrote a paper calculating the ...