What is the purpose of life?

[Black Sun Dimension]

What is the purpose of life?

Create more life.

[Grumpy Cat]

[CyrustheVirus]

Colonizing other planets and spreading to the farthest stars would be nice.

[askra]

if i knew the answer, i would be a billionaire now!

[Germanicus]

I am composed of the formal and the material; and neither of them will perish into non-existence, as neither of them came into existence out of non-existence. Every part of me then will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on for ever. And by consequence of such a change I too exist, and those who begot me, and so on for ever in the other direction. For nothing hinders us from saying so, even if the universe is administered according to definite periods of revolution.

Marcus Aurelius meditations

Book 5. 13.

[Oreka Bailoak]

^Reading your quote reminded me of one of my favorites.

"Observe how all things are continually being born of change; teach yourself to see that nature's highest happiness lies in changing the things that are and forming new things after their kind."
-Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

So I think the purpose in life is to have a family, kids, and to make the world a better place during your lifetime.

[Stygian Cellarius]

I thunk on this once.

What can Life-matter do that non-Life-matter cannot? It can DO things!

That is the fundamental difference. The infinitive? "To do". So that is a good starting point. If there is a purpose, it is to DO some-THING!

One interesting attribute of Bio-matter is that it has anti-entropic tendencies. Although eventually, Life-matter will succumb to the inevitability of entropy. NOTHING can circumvent entropy. Except one thing.

IMO the most unique feature of Life is that it is the only medium in the universe that can transfer information through time completely isolated from the effects of entropy. All other information mediums will eventually scatter their information content throughout the universe when they themselves fall under the yoke of entropy.

Not Life-matter.

Now of course I am talking about the information contained in our genomes. Genetic information is the only information | no | the only THING in the universe that is not affected by entropy!

But what for? And for whom? I don't know. All I know is that information is to be sent into the future to some future intelligence that will understand its meaning. Humans in particular are the "chosen" hosts because we are the only Life-matter that has evolved conscious-thought. What does conscious thought have to do with all this you say? Conscious thought is the ONLY means of genome preservation beyond the natural life-cycle of a star system. It's the only means of circumventing the death of a Star by leaving the planet of origin. Remember, "all" things succumb to entropy.

Life preserves information against entropy in general.
Conscious thought preserves information against entropy in respect to its effects on the planet of habitation.

So now we know the purpose of Life and of Conscious Thought!

But the genome gets scrambled every generation and it mutates. What possible information could be preserved?

I'm not sure, I believe that some of it remains intact. Whatever DNA we share with our most distant ancestor―that's where we wanna look!

K, that's my theory. Although, I don't believe a word of it. I just thought it was neato.

[Agrippa]

Create and preserve life - especially that of genetically related variants and lifeforms.

To achieve a higher niveau and grade of adaptiveness beside other things for humans, the social and cultural species, for its survival on a high level.

For humans, the goal should be progress, from one generation to the next, so their chance for survival being increased, as well as their understanding of the world in which our species was thrown. That's my opinion.

[Sabinae]

On a global level, Agrippa's "create and preserve life" is the actual essence, along with progress and deeply knowing the world we live in.

On a personal level... I cant answer it, im still struggling

[Baron Samedi]

Gettin dat bomb-ass pussy!