I think I fail to accept the premise that a.) we have a purpose at all and b.) if we do it's defined by our works. To accept that we have a purpose and it's de

I think I fail to accept the premise that a.) we have a purpose at all and b.) if we do it's defined by our works. To accept that we have a purpose and it's defined by our creativity leads to so many circular arguments that it's more sensible to accept that life is absurd. There is no purpose. There is only existence. And our existence thus far has been due to a random series of mutations and fortunate events. If we create intelligent machines then perhaps they will further humanity's dominance on the planet. Perhaps they will destroy us and lead to a new era of evolution. In that sense the purpose of the earliest primates was to pave the biological path for humans. Perhaps it's our purpose to create and pave the path for a better species still, biological or not. ... or maybe even better, waxing and waning about unanswerable philosophical questions like this is simply intellectual masturbation that conflates issues and reduces reality to unrealistic black and white absolutes.