Is it just born, suffer, die? Whatever we learn is meaningless, no one really cares, it's all just chemical reaction anyways? Are we just biological robots appearing on a random planet floating in a cold, careless void? What does science have to say about this?
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None whosoever...
You are the one who provides meaning for your life...
The good news is that you get to choose how you organize your life within the bounds of your local environment...
And the health and well being of humanity is the sum total of the efforts of everyone alive and everyone who has lived and died...
"What does science have to say about this?"
They don't deal with the meaning of life - that is for us to do...
Science just tells us the reality of things - for those who want to live in reality...
Believing in religions (you have your chose of 30,000 or so religions) doesn't change reality...
Religion just gives some people a "teddy bear" to hug while their ONLY life is slip-sliding away...
You are the one who provides meaning for your life...
The good news is that you get to choose how you organize your life within the bounds of your local environment...
And the health and well being of humanity is the sum total of the efforts of everyone alive and everyone who has lived and died...
"What does science have to say about this?"
They don't deal with the meaning of life - that is for us to do...
Science just tells us the reality of things - for those who want to live in reality...
Believing in religions (you have your chose of 30,000 or so religions) doesn't change reality...
Religion just gives some people a "teddy bear" to hug while their ONLY life is slip-sliding away...
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Science says that life exists. Whether we are biological robots or a strange chemical reaction on a random planet is a cold void, doesn't matter to science.
Evidence that life has any meaning comes from how you see yourself. Any evidence on the score is just a matter of interpretation.
Credibility or believability is up to the individual. Its meaning is always what the individual believes or assumes.
So, do the Hamlet thing: suffer in silence, end your existence or "take up arms against outrageous fortune". You are, and that's the critical thing. You can make yourself "not be".
Or go to Dylan Thomas and "go not in silence into that dark night".
Evidence that life has any meaning comes from how you see yourself. Any evidence on the score is just a matter of interpretation.
Credibility or believability is up to the individual. Its meaning is always what the individual believes or assumes.
So, do the Hamlet thing: suffer in silence, end your existence or "take up arms against outrageous fortune". You are, and that's the critical thing. You can make yourself "not be".
Or go to Dylan Thomas and "go not in silence into that dark night".
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Science is a tool to look for meaning. Science cannot say anything about meaning. To be completely logical, we are in fact all just biological ants walking this earth. Everything we experience and feel is just chemicals in the brain. Our brains look for meaning, yet our brains can't possibly comprehend it. In logical terms, we're too stupid to know anything.