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Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
#2To distract you while it reproduces itself.
Re: Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
#3The only purpose of life is giving purpose and meaning to your own life and collectively. Most prefer just accepting a collective purpose, meaning or goal in life. This will eventually lead to self doubt.
Few prefer defining their purpose and influencing others with it. We call them leaders, artists, visionaries etc.
Some prefer manipulation of lack of understanding of purpose. They become a leading to force in preaching things they don't understand themselves.
Re: Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
#4This question can have multiple meanings, for example:
1. What should we do with our lives.
2. Why is there life on this universe.
For question 1: I don't thing there's a single purpose that fits everyone. However, this doesn't mean that nothing matters and we are free to whatever we want - we are human beings after all, and there are some things that humans should not do. The obvious ones would be rape and senseless killing.
For question 2: life is just a thing that exists. Why do things exist? Why are there things in the universe, or even a universe at all? Truly mind blowing stuff in my opinion.
These 2 questions are probably related, not sure how.
Re: Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
#5Happiness. However, you'd want to maximize this through the longest possible time frame.
Re: Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
#6The only objective ‘purpose’ seems to be the evolutionary imperative to successfully reproduce, but I’m not convinced that even that one matters.
Other than that, life is basically a choose-your-own-adventure game with rules/constraints superimposed by the nature of our reality.
Re: Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
#7For my own life is for me, my family and friends to be happy, which involves a lot of money unfortunately :-)
For the life itself, the only purpose is reproduction
And the meaning of life is 42 (in case you need to include it in your paper as well ;-)
Re: Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
#8In the words of Philip J Fry, "Just sitting here turning quarters into urine"
Re: Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
#9The question is humorously anthropocentric. Purpose is meaningful only to humans. Life occurs independently of human notions.
Re: Ask HN: What is the purpose of life in your point of view?
#10It's the reduction of uncertainty.