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May 05, 2014, 11:16:36 AM |
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If you think about the simple life forms, it is quite easy to see their meaning of life. There whole existence is surrounded around simple making more life.
This is so apparent in that many life forms will actually die right after mating as they at that point had fulfilled the whole point of their entire existence.
Life then at the lowest levels is something that is much akin to a virus. It's whole point is just to make more life, just likes a viruses whole purpose is to make more virus.
Now, something different happens with humans than say a virus. Humans have achieved consciousness and with this consciousness can now choose the direction of our life. We can now direct when to reproduce and how and why, but we can even choose not to reproduce.
So there is a new meaning once consciousness in a sentient being becomes a master of a life within that being. The point of life no longer has to be about just making more life.
At this point a sentient being can choose it's meaning and its purpose in life. So yes, for sentient humans, the point of life is to find the meaning of life. Maybe that will be to reproduce, or maybe to live in peace, or maybe to experience perpetual self growth. Maybe it is something else considered "bad". These are the questions that philosophers have often sit around asking themselves many of times.
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