“'The answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.” ~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy In the spirit of high humor and cheeky nonchalance, let’s replace Douglas Adams’ famous quantum computer (Deep Thought) with an existential computer (Deeper Thought). Then let’s invert the question that we ask it: “What is the answer to the meaning of death, reality, and nothingness?” The answer is also inverted —twenty-four. For the same arbitrary reason that the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything is
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