Lex Fridman asked Elon Musk what the meaning of life is. His answer was not what anyone expected.
We do not know, he said. And that is exactly why we need to expand consciousness.
Not to find the answer. To ask better questions.
He believes the universe is full of things we cannot even formulate yet. We are like children trying to understand calculus. The problem is not that calculus is too hard. The problem is that we have not developed enough to know it exists.
Consciousness, to him, is a tool for exploring the universe. The more of it we have, the better our questions become. The better our questions become, the closer we get to understanding what any of this means.
This is why he builds rockets and brain interfaces and AI. Not because he has the answers. Because he thinks the only way to get them is to expand what we are capable of thinking.
Most people spend their lives looking for meaning. Elon is building the tools to look for it at a scale we cannot yet imagine.
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