1. It's not that your point is lost on me, but I tend to still root these things in being fundamentally pleasurable or not. Like how it feels good to do a charitable act and it also feels good to eat pizza. I construe it all as a type of layered hedonism. That sense that life is meaningful is just another sip from the serotonin/dopamine cocktail, imo.

2. It's a beautiful thought. It's not my view of the universe, but that would certainly change the equation!

Thank you for leaving such a thoughtful comment!