I ended up reading um the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which is actually a book on philosophy just sort of disguised as a silly humor book. […] And Adams makes the point that… it’s actually the question that is harder than the answer. You know this sort of makes a joke that the answer was 42. […]
So I have a sort of a proposal for a world view or a motivating philosophy which is to understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the Universe and to agree that if we expand the scope and scale of consciousness biological and digital, we will be better able to ask these questions, to frame these questions and to understand why we’re here, how we got here, what the heck is going on.
So that is my driving philosophy, to expand the scope and scale of consciousness that we may better understand the nature of the universe.
Elon Musk, at TED2022.