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What is the meaning of life?

>> No.6226197

inb4 "42"
Keep that retarded meme on reddit, please.

>> No.6226202

Why do you ask?

>> No.6226212

what do you think you're going to accomplish with this thread, OP? does /sci/'s opinion really matter that much to you?

>> No.6226210

>>6226202
Because I want to know.

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>>6226197
>retarded meme
>douglas adams

>> No.6226221

What do you mean by 'meaning'?

>> No.6226222

>>6226197
why do you even mention it if you don't like it?

>> No.6226224

>>6226212
/sci/ are the smartest people on the internet. I hope any of you can solve the ancient mystery.

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>>6226224
>/sci/ are the smartest people on the internet.

>> No.6226229

>>6226210
Why do you want to know?

>> No.6226231

What do you mean by "meaning"? I can't think of a reason why life would have a meaning. It just emerged in this universe, and that's that.

>> No.6226232

>>6226192
>to grow

learn, laugh, procreate, ingest, excrete...

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>>6226224
>/sci/ are the smartest people on the internet.
What?

>> No.6226257

>>6226229
the meaning of life

>> No.6226259

To ask inane, unanswerable questions on /sci/.

>> No.6226265

I went to a Snoop Dogg concert at my college and this is what he had to say:

>Yo college life is great, but I didn't even NEED it. You all trying to find the meaning of life, while I already know it: FUCK BITCHES. GET DRUNK. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, SMOKE. WEEEEEEEEEEED.

Truly, my life has never been the same since that day.

>> No.6226266

>>6226197
Wow dude, just because reddIt invented the whole '42' thing doesn't mean we can't still joke about it
>Watch out guys we've got a mad oldfag over here

>> No.6226267

if you ask agent smith he will tell you "the meaning of life is to end"

>> No.6226270

>>6226257
then answer this:
>>6226231
because you apparently have some notion of what it would mean for life to have a meaning

>> No.6226277

>>6226270
Then maybe we should rephrase the question if it isn't appropriate.

Is life an emergent property of the universe or a statistically unlikely event?

>> No.6226290

>>6226277
I don't know, but either way, if their wasn't life we wouldn't be here contemplating life. The anthropic principle.

I don't think life itself has some special significance in the grand scheme of things (if you look at our universe, it's just something cool that emerged out of stuff that was there already), however being alive I'm still baffled by the mystery of what it means to exist

>> No.6226295

>>6226290
Fair enough, I personally think it's the first one. But that's because I disagree with you and think life has special properties.

>> No.6226303

>>6226295
It could be both.
It could be argued that without entities experiencing it, a universe does not actually exist. The fact that we exist and experience life has deep metaphysical implications like that. It's all weird stuff, I'm trying to read up on it but it's too vague for google to come up with anything meaningful.

I find this very interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis
The notion that the universe may be nothing other than a mathematical structure, that any mathematical structure may be a universe, etc.

>> No.6226326

>>6226192
>the meaning of life
... is replication of DNA, and that's all.
What else would you expect from bacteria?

>> No.6226329

>>6226326
how is that the meaning of life? DNA is just a property of life.

>> No.6226393

>>6226192
>What is the meaning of life?
Whatever you decide it is for you.
/thread

>> No.6226408

>>6226192
candle~jack once said the one true meaning of life is

>>Captcha: because weenphem

>> No.6226409

>>6226192
>What is the meaning of life?

Simple: To live.

>> No.6226428

>>6226192
>qualia
>>>/lit/

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>>6226192
>The concept of accepting that life is meaningless, and still live it that way seems, well, absurd. So let us delve a little bit more into what Camus is actually saying. When he talks about “a total absence of hope,” he means hope of finding some rational explanation to life, the universe, and everything. There is no master plan, no fate, you are not “destined” to do something concrete. It is like we are on vacation. Questions such as "why are we here" are the equivalent of going to the North Pole and asking where is north. There is no why, we simply are. We have to find happiness in our human experiences and not in things beyond such as faith or hope. In a sense, embracing the absurd frees us. Take Quantum Mechanics and Einstein for example. In a discussion with Neils Bohr over the validity of Quantum Mechanics, Einstein argued that "God does not play dice." He thought the universe was deterministic (that it is possible to have perfect knowledge of the physics controlling an event). Bohr believed that at the quantum level, the universe was random and unpredictable (that the best we could do is assign a probability to a given event). This rationale did not fit the perfect knowledge required by Einstein, so he spent the rest of his days enslaved, trying to fit sense into the senseless, while the rest of the world moved on. Needless to say, Einstein was wrong.

>> No.6226483

>>6226428
what does defining qualia as qualia tell us about (the meaning of) life?

>> No.6226491

>>6226192
>What is the meaning of life?

Procreation.

There is no other meaning.

>> No.6226557

>>6226329
>DNA is just a property
Lrn2biochem

>> No.6226579

>>6226266
>doesn't know the reference....

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>>6226393

>> No.6226600

>>6226197
seriously, i watn to be the crap out of all the faggot nerds who say that

>> No.6226639
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Here are several meanings to life based on your perception of its meaning.

Humanistic: To help others and humanity is the meaning behind your life.

Biological: To procreate, to make life.

Existential: To observe and understand the universe which birthed everything and everyone.
Am I getting somewhere /sci/?

>> No.6226651

>>6226329
DNA is the language of life son.
Do you even biology?

>> No.6226652

>>6226408
>candle~jack
It's like it's really the year 2006 aga-

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>>6226192
To live a life of meaning

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>>6226447
2deep4me

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>>6226639
And if we combine them all?

>> No.6226713

>>6226192
whatever you will

If you decide to play video games and smoke pot, that is the meaning of your life.

If you put down the controller, stump out your blunt and then proceed to utterly dedicate yourself to gaining power and achieving biological immortality, well then that is the new meaning of your life.

>> No.6226719

>>6226691
you have to quantify the value of your efforts then evenly divide them between the 3 as accurately as you can

>> No.6226721

I would answer 42, but in fact 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything, and is not in fact anything to do with the meaning of life. So in short. I don't know.

>> No.6226732

To experience life.

>> No.6227219

>>6226557
>>6226651
That's exactly what I mean, idiots. It has nothing to do with any "meaning" whatsoever.

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>>6226224
>this is what 4chan actually believes

>> No.6227290

>>6226393
boom.

>> No.6227565

>>6226192
To survive and prosper.

>> No.6227567

To perpetually shitpost on image boards.

>> No.6227583

>>6227567
My dogs are failing at life then.

...Or are they? That would explain a lot, you know.

>> No.6227602

To find meaning in life

>> No.6227617

The meaning of all life is to learn, gain wisdom and move to higher planes of existence, to ultimatly reach the same wisdom of the creator himself

Depending on what you achieved in this life, you will probably reincarnate into another to learn the things you didnt.

Repeat until achieved wisdom.

>> No.6227623

Reason exists solely for those who cannot live without it

>> No.6227652

>>6226266
>reddIt invented the whole '42' thing

brilliant b8 m8

>> No.6227663

>>6226290

You know, I've been trying to wrap my head around the anthropic principle on wikipedia for 2 hours now, and here I have it explained in one sentence by someone who uses "their" instead of "there".

>> No.6228511

>>6227663
The "anthropic principle" is just cretionism sophistry.

>> No.6228890

>>6226202
>>6226210
Already answered.

>> No.6228935

>>6226691
To help others by fucking the universe.