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All animal brains (including us) are first and foremost is a great signal processor that is tuned to surface that particular reality of nature to us that helps
by la64710 4y ago
All animal brains (including us) are first and foremost is a great signal processor that is tuned to surface that particular reality of nature to us that helps life.
- dekken_ 4y agoNot saying you're wrong, but it leaves the question of what the point of life is to the universe.
- elevaet 4y agoWhy would/should/could there be a point? Life just is, doing life.
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoUnless one believes in supernatural creators, observers and judges, there is no point in anything and existence, life and consciousness are all unlucky coincidences. We are an absolutely pointless long term consequence of the natural process of evolution, that can start anytime the environment for life is just right.
- dekken_ 4y ago> Unless one believes in supernatural creators, observers and judges, there is no point in anything and existence This is your opinion. There are other possibilities.
- Traubenfuchs 4y ago> There are other possibilities. They are unprovable but irrefutable delusions or part of frameworks people made up to come to peace with the truth. Examples frameworks would be pitiful reasons to exist like "keep the species alive", "keep the family line going", "I need to be behave this and that way because my deity will judge me when I die" etc.
- mistermann 4y agoIf this is true, why do atheists get so bent out of shape when you don't comply with their scriptures?
- dron57 4y agoAtheists don't have scriptures. Religious people love thinking about atheism as just another religion and will bring up all kinds of examples like Stalin and Mao commited attrocities in the name of religion. In reality atheists don't have anything in common with one another. There is no shared belief system or a set of scriptures for atheists. Stalin and Mao did however have a shared belief system and it wasn't atheism.
- mistermann 4y ago> In reality atheists don't have anything in common with one another. This seems unlikely. > There is no shared belief system or a set of scriptures for atheists. Large quantities of those I talk to on the internet seem to disagree.
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoBy all means, don't follow "our scriptures", whatever those may be, but accept that we consider anything anyone would call "faith" and belief in the super natural somewhere on the scale between magical thinking and mental illness.
- morgangiraud 4y agoUnderstanding itself.
- dekken_ 4y agoI don't disagree with this, but it might only be a partial answer.
- 0xBABAD00C 4y ago> what the point of life is to the universe Life is the evolution of (increasingly) complex adaptive systems in non-equilibrium state, driven by external energy and enabling a new regime of faster entropy increase, thus faster descent towards the "heat death". This is contrary to the popular belief that life somehow goes against the 2nd law of thermodynamics. In fact, it is the 2nd law of thermodynamics, the universal drive towards higher-entropy states (we are essentially specs of dust in a slow-motion explosion, since the Big Bang), that enables life-like systems to evolve under the right conditions to accelerate the slide towards a higher-entropy state. Specifically in case of carbon-based biological life, one succinct tongue-in-cheek way to put it is "life's purpose is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide". See the "Nick Lane" discussion thread from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32392937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32392937
- a9h74j 4y agoPrecisely at this juncture, one answer from Alan Watts was: Some apparent problems are created by language.
- la64710 4y agoAs a signal processing machine what the brain understand as the universe may not in some reality have a point