Tmaster95

Tmaster95 t1_iu67a54 wrote

Being alive is a label invented by humanity to adress constructs and arrangements of matter that can react to its environment and sense things. Being alive doesn’t mean anything and doesn’t change the purpose of anything. Plants are alive. What is their purpose? Survival and reproduction. Many wouldn’t say the universe is alive but I think it could be just to slow to see, still there is no proof for that.

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Tmaster95 t1_iu5zmdx wrote

The reason you are referring to isn’t different to the reason I’m referring to. If we look at it now as highly developed animals you could think that they differ, but the process of evolution proves their equality. We exist because the generations of our ancestors had some advantage to the other iterations and species.

We are better than many of them, that’s why we are here. We want to countinue being better and existing, that’s why we want to reproduce and survive.

I don’t have anything more to say.

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Tmaster95 t1_iu5yq0o wrote

Yes, the purpose in the sense you are talking about is to be alive which is survival. You can’t survive as a species if you don’t reproduce, so these two go hand in hand. There isn’t anything more to it.

There isn’t anything more mechanical than the universe. To see this realization as something negative is stupid. It is just the rejection of the naive thought that we would need more. We can keep telling ourselves some made up stories and reasons maybe to feel better (in the great picture useless and maybe even counterproductive) but that doesn’t make them real at all.

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