Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThe flaw in all of this sophomoric philosophic whinging is that it mostly tends to start off with the presupposition that all of these concepts aren’t just human constructs. The only reason anything has meaning to us is because we decided it does.
The purpose of life is life itself.
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 2 weeks ago
I’m just glad we can both agree science has no meaning. thanks.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Incorrect, only because you’re still tacitly assuming that science (or anything else) must have some kind of external cosmic significance outside of human thought.
Science is important to us – or at least it ought to be – because it’s the method by which we understand how the universe works. Being important to us is all that matters, because we can’t think with the minds of anything else.
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 2 weeks ago
That is exactly my point. Thanks.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
science doesn’t require meaning to have purpose. saving meaningless lives and minimizing meaningless suffering are purposes, as is understanding what we are and what we could become.
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 2 weeks ago
why are those purposes meaningful?
Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
would it be meaningful to you to have a drastically better quality of life for yourself and everyone else?
maybe you are defining meaningful in some weird way?