A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning (2016)

What's next, a solipsist's guide to social interaction?

> This may be nihilism, but at least it's good-humored.

Whiffed on the fact that humor itself here is meaning. Explaining away positive experiences as "illusory" (which is, without evidence that it IS in fact "illusory" instead of just being conjecture based on currently-known facts, simply "gaslighting" to me), is the problem of nihilism (IMHO).

Anyone ever consider the odd fact that every nonliving thing in the universe always tends toward higher entropy, but living things take this weird (and unexplained, thus far, to me) detour into lower entropy/higher organization, at least for a time (until death permits entropy to take over again)? That to me is particularly peculiar, and seems to fly in the face of materialist arguments that basically equate life to "non-life, but with more steps".

This is a new one to me, so forgive me if this is answered, but wouldn’t solipsism require that the individual be able to manipulate their own reality as it posits reality is personal in construction? Similar to a lucid dream state.

> I have a degree in philosophy, but haven't read any of the classic literature on this subject, so I'm almost certainly reinventing the wheel.

This shows when you call both Watts and Vonnegut a nihilist. Absurdism for example is not the same as nihilism.

Not really, for all intents and purposes we are a brain in a jar with a bunch of electrodes sending signals.