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Bebelle wrote: ↑November 24th, 2017, 6:52 pm Have you ever felt that everything you do and will do is meaningless? That no matter how great you are at something you will never be truly important, and that's when you are good at something, because most of the time you are just average. So why should we live if our existence has no importance, if it is not going to make any difference in the world? No big changes, you are just one more person like many others.
jaypeza wrote: ↑March 11th, 2018, 8:54 pm This video talks about the real purpose in life, i think this video truly is what we are all looking for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDoLyN2imsY&t=3sAre you serious??
ProgrammingGodJordan wrote: ↑March 13th, 2018, 11:01 pmWas the purpose of the common ape ancestor to evolve into humans, chimps, bonobos, orang-utans and gorillas? Was the purpose of the common ancestor of monkeys and apes to produce it's various subsequent lines? Is the purpose of a child to become frail and elderly? Was the purpose of blue-green algae to flood the atmosphere with (then toxic) oxygen, making complex life possible?Bebelle wrote: ↑November 24th, 2017, 6:52 pm Have you ever felt that everything you do and will do is meaningless? That no matter how great you are at something you will never be truly important, and that's when you are good at something, because most of the time you are just average. So why should we live if our existence has no importance, if it is not going to make any difference in the world? No big changes, you are just one more person like many others.
1.) I hypothesize that the purpose of human life is reasonably to construct Artificial General Intelligence.
2.) Reference-A: ResearchGate: Why is life's purpose reasonably to build AGI/ASI?
3.) The reference above relates to purpose in the realm of objectivity/science (teleonomy) rather than subjective things like the teleological argument.
Jan Sand wrote: ↑March 27th, 2018, 2:18 amIn humans the motivations for greed and power become so dominant that they exist independent of their carriers as a kind of meme so that they dominate their generators ...Indeed. They are known as corporations. They are inching towards the kind of domination of humans that humans imposed upon other species. What goes around, comes around, it seems.
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