What is Life?

[El_Machinae]

Not always. Plenty of voluntary childless folks.

Well, that's assuming that the reproduction is "after their kind". I betcha can't find a living childless folks that don't have reproducing stem cells in their bodies.

That said, reproduction is not essential to life. Or at least, something can be unicellular and alive and non-reproducing. The internal organelles? Well, they're reproducing!

 

[Borachio]

what is the purpose of life?

Dunno.

Another related question is "What is the right way to live?" Which may, or may not, be easier to answer.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Baby don't hurt me.

 

[Borachio]

Link to video.

Weeell. I kind of agree.

 

[Perfection]

Not always. Plenty of voluntary childless folks.

I'm using life as in life in general not some person's life

 

[Antilogic]

but I was hoping to see how atheists answered

I'd ask why I need or would even want a faceless and capricious deity to give me a purpose when I am perfectly capable of doing so myself.

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more.

Baby don't hurt me.

Beat me to it, I was thinking of the same joke.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Bacteria seems not very conscious.

Not very, but sufficient to act appropriately given their circumstances. As are you.

 

[Berzerker]

I'd ask why I need or would even want a faceless and capricious deity to give me a purpose when I am perfectly capable of doing so myself.

where'd your capability come from?

 

[Perfection]

Not very, but sufficient to act appropriately given their circumstances. As are you.

I seldom act appropriately

 

[Antilogic]

where'd your capability come from?

Why does it have to come from somewhere?

 

[Borachio]

If it didn't come from somewhere, how come you've got it?

 

[Antilogic]

If it didn't come from somewhere, how come you've got it?

Maybe people are just born with it or pick it up from parents or their peers. There is no reason to assume that some deity has to be the source of it.

 

[Borachio]

I agree there's no reason to assume that some deity has to be the source of it.

But yet, "being born with it" or "picking it up from parents" aren't the same kind of explanations as it coming from nowhere.

In the case of "being born with it", how can this be? How can you not have it before your birth and then magically have it when you're born?

"Picking it up from your parents" just demands that I ask where your parents got it from

 

[Berzerker]

they got it from whatever is responsible for existence, some call it "God".

 

[El_Machinae]

The drive to survive is built into thinking organisms via natural selection. Humans, being capable of higher order thought have taken this instinct and then tried to build upon it using rational concepts. And, we have a natural instinct to look for the 'point' of things, something also built into us from out lower instincts. Where does this higher order thought come from? Well, not entirely sure. But, sometimes you can see the lower order instincts that are the foundations for these higher order thoughts.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Reproduction

Perfection.

slow moving energy that has condensed and has formed an awareness of itself

Thats what I tend to think. Matter = Energy = Consciousness

- George Harrison...

so what is it?

what is the purpose of life?

Purpose of life is to find truth of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.

This is what stands behind imnense power of universe as well behind smallest of things. It self-existent but can re-create itself. Its everything but it can loose itself. Its all powerfull but it can limit itself.

 

[Souron]

The purpose of life is entirely up to each person living it.

Reproduction

I'm using life as in life in general not some person's life

Disagree compleately. Natural processes do not have a purpose. Life reproduces because that is the nature of life, not because life is meant to reproduce. There is no intent behind nature.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

The purpose of life is entirely up to each person living it.


Disagree compleately. Natural processes do not have a purpose. Life reproduces because that is the nature of life, not because life is meant to reproduce. There is no intent behind nature.

If there is no "intent" then how comes there are "laws"? In order for evolution to be possible life must happen within universe with laws...

 

[Pegasus_77]

I do not know what it is but i want to have a lot of enjoyments,like a romance ,experience of different cultures.

 

[Souron]

If there is no "intent" then how comes there are "laws"? In order for evolution to be possible life must happen within universe with laws...

Because the univerce is not random. "Law" in a scientific context means what "pattern" means in a lay context. The univerce works in a particular way, which says nothing about how it was intended to work, or if there is anyone to indend anything about it.