The Meaning of Life
Simply put, there is no meaning!
Meaning implies design and purpose. That's a nice emotionally satisfying fantasy for humans to lean on, but as is so often the case the evidence and facts simply don't support this to be the reality.
Given the biological building blocks and the right environment, life grows...and evolves...all on it's own. It's fundamental, it's chemical and it's biological. It's in the fossil record and it's demostrable in a laboratory.
There's no apparent reason to attribute a supernatural intelligence and purpose to the process of biological life, other than human ego, arrogance, uncertainty, hope, despair and faith. Take this out of the mix and life still happens. Take the biology and chemistry out of the mix and it doesn't.
Some humans...well many humans, seem to want or need there to be a 'meaning' to life; to the fact that we're here. But that's completely emotional and totally irrelevant to the process of life that the apparent facts and empirical evidence explain.
Meaning implies design and purpose. That's a nice emotionally satisfying fantasy for humans to lean on, but as is so often the case the evidence and facts simply don't support this to be the reality.
Given the biological building blocks and the right environment, life grows...and evolves...all on it's own. It's fundamental, it's chemical and it's biological. It's in the fossil record and it's demostrable in a laboratory.
There's no apparent reason to attribute a supernatural intelligence and purpose to the process of biological life, other than human ego, arrogance, uncertainty, hope, despair and faith. Take this out of the mix and life still happens. Take the biology and chemistry out of the mix and it doesn't.
Some humans...well many humans, seem to want or need there to be a 'meaning' to life; to the fact that we're here. But that's completely emotional and totally irrelevant to the process of life that the apparent facts and empirical evidence explain.
posted by Simple Simon at 19:29
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