RE: Do you think there's a point to your existence??
March 26, 2012 at 9:21 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2012 at 9:25 pm by Blanca.)
(March 26, 2012 at 8:41 pm)Mosrhun Wrote: As Carl Sagan once said, "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself." Our purpose is to exist, explore and gain knowledge as a species, in my opinion.
I like carl sagan, too. This train of thought echo's earkhart tolle. I think it's kind of a strange concept. Tolle thinks the universe is playing games with form to get to know itself better. It kind of makes sense since evolution makes such small subtle changes that it would give one a chance to know the very subtleties of oneself.
But it's weird to think that the Cosmos want to get to know itself- a little anthropomorphic?
(March 26, 2012 at 5:58 pm)R-e-n-n-a-t Wrote: If you want to get really precise, sadness and happiness shunt you down certain paths because of the biological need to pass on your genetics. In the modern age, we know that people can live their entire lives without multiplying, and that's great. However, the cause of emotion is the drive to spread genes and to survive and fit in long enough to do so, since without that, your genes would be removed from the world and thus demonstrate natural selection.
So let's say that the drive of emotions is the need to pass on one's genetic info. Why is there that need? To me that need would suggest there is a point to reproducing, which suggests that there is meaning to life.
