Questions about values are really questions about the well-being of conscious creatures

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• We do not know the meaning of life, so the thing to do is expand the scope and scale of consciousness, digital and biological, until we know what questions to ask. EMElon Musk9 Nov 2023
• Values exist only relative to changes in the well-being of conscious creatures SHSam Harrisc. 2010
• Judging whether life is worth living is answering the fundamental question of philosophy ACAlbert Camusc. 1942
• Philosophy should be studied for the sake of its questions, not for definite answers, which can rarely be known to be true BRBertrand Russellc. 1912
• What matters is not what we expect from life but what life expects from us VFViktor Franklc. 1946–1992

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