# Just Live  ## Metadata - Author: [[Galen Strawson]] - Full Title: Just Live - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The text explores the concepts of meaning in life, narrativity, and interest. It discusses how narrativity may not be necessary for meaning and how interest can exist independently of narrativity. It also touches on the idea that good meaning can arise from subjective interest meeting objective attractiveness. Different perspectives on narrativity and its relation to meaning are presented. - URL: https://drb.ie/articles/just-live/ ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > This time it strikes me that the answer ‘It has no meaning’ isn’t negative or disappointing. It’s celebratory. It’s the only answer that grasps the value of life and the nature of its value – apart from being true ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hq36bpawagjxmhwqrgrwvfy4)) > The existence of the universe may have value but it doesn’t have meaning. So too the existence of life. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hq36e0nvm5pnsw9f7mpjrcxj)) > ) Self-History. Almost all ordinary people have a reasonably good grasp of their own history – basic facts about their own life. (I say ‘almost all’ because there are people whose memory of their own pasts is profoundly garbled, even though they don’t count as mentally unwell. Some people ‘come to believe their own stories by constantly repeating them’, as Leibniz remarked. Hume saw this too: ‘liars … by the frequent repetition of their lies, come at last to believe and remember them, as realities’.) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hq3e5azba142exhns1snhacb))