But what if the answer to your question is that there is no meaning or purpose in life, other than that which you bring with you, or otherwise acquire. It's all up to you? There is no guide to everyday behaviour that you can lean on.... :chin: — Pattern-chaser
Correct me if i'm quoting you wrong but i do not believe evolution excludes god or gods. — christian2017
That's true.Your question is not the meaning of life, but the meaning of being. — Herve
Each living being dies, and that's a fundamental discontinuity in life. Evolution, which is a changing of the existing forms of life, as time passes, is dependent on this fundamental discontinuity. So your assumption of continuity is discordant with this fundamental principle. — Metaphysician Undercover
To me, asking the meaning of the universe is more arrogant, since we know little about the fate of the universe and nothing about what's before or after (if any) the universe or what's outside the universe.How about what is the meaning of the universe (less arrogant)? — julian kroin
Right. Maybe I should change it into "Darwin's discovery of evolution showed us a seemed meaningless universe."That fact that life in the universe changes over time need not lead us to the conclusion that the universe is meaningless. — Bitter Crank
It IS difficult. But humans' technologies are developing fast. Elon Musk has actually started to do it. Humans have years to go to make it practical.There are inordinate difficulties in colonizing distant planets; like, they're not at all suitable for us or they are just too far away — Bitter Crank
That's true. An extreme example of such is the cold war. It had some good effects though. It proved the Soviet Union's way was not the best. Such competition is a mechanism to weed out bad solutions and is a component of current human's form of continuation. In that sense the movement originated from Russia the last century is an important experiment to the evolving of human's form of continuation. This mechanism will continue to work in the form of competition between countries.With a common goal given as the meaning of life, if people disagree on how to reach it they will fight to death — leo
This really is a problem that need to be dealt with. Although the competition mechanism above helps to deal with this problem, education is also very important. After all, memes (not the internet thing) is also a very important component of human's form of continuation.it seems useless when most people don't want to listen and don't care about anything but themselves, they are probably the ones who will get to decide the fate of humanity through their sheer number. — leo