There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.