Davidson Loehr is a member of the International Big History Association. He’s interested in identifying “the meaning of life” within the newly emerging world/universe view of Big History. The culture of the group is very much skewed to the hard sciences, pretty irritated by all things religious (superstitious nonsense), but unfortunately also very ignorant of the humanities, without which we can’t answer questions about the meaning of human life.

Bill Gates — who I’ve read is bankrolling this movement to the tune of up to $300 million — and set its mission statement “to bring big history to everyone, everywhere” — has hosted a little contest for a statement about “What it means to be human.” Davidson’s entry is posted as a 5-minute YouTube video here.