Existential
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More recently, NYU social psychologist John Jost has argued that “ideologies and other belief systems grow out of an attempt to satisfy the epistemic,
existential
, and relational needs of our species.”
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Elon Musk warns that it's an
existential
risk and one of the greatest risks that we face as a civilization.
And it raises an
existential
question, which is, if I'm having this experience of complete connection and full consciousness, why am I not visible in the photograph, and where is this time and place?
From my family looking in from outside, what they're trying to figure out is a different kind of
existential
question, which is, how far is it going to be possible to bridge from the comatose potential mind that they're looking at to an actual mind, which I define simply as the functioning of the brain that is remaining inside my head.
And the answer, of course, that we keep being given is as follows: we're told that we went into Afghanistan because of 9/11, and that we remain there because the Taliban poses an
existential
threat to global security.
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