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> They give me life, strength and purpose like nothing ever has. Congratulations! You've discovered the meaning of life, ie reproduction. It's so fulfilling b
by dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago
> They give me life, strength and purpose like nothing ever has.
Congratulations! You've discovered the meaning of life, ie reproduction.
It's so fulfilling because it's what you're programmed to do, as an organism.
Living things (as a group) exist only to reproduce, nothing else matters, and everything they do is geared to toward it. If an individual doesn't follow that goal, it is removed from the gene pool, and those that reproduce fill the vacuum.
Of course human vanity and ego will insist there is something higher (thus things like religion), but there isn't.
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- benterix 3y agoI only partly agree with your comment, because the dilemma is false. All living organisms reproduce and humans as mammals are no exception. At the same time, you can almost feel it's not all. If you stop to think about the original cause, things get very complicated (if you adopt Penrose's thesis regarding Big Bangs, there is no original cause). If you start to analyse the macro- (dark energy and maybe dark matter) and especially microcosm (all things quantum), suddenly ordinary perception collapses. Even plain old relativity with time-space curvature seems at odds with what we are used to perceive. So maybe, just maybe, it's not so far-stretched to think the so-called objective reality is a kind of hologram or whatever we call it. I'd say it's far more probable than just believing everything is accidental and has little purpose (e.g. just reproducing and that's all).
- RetroTechie 3y agoIt is survival of the species that counts, and the 'geological' timescales over which it does. Some individuals from that species reproducing is obviously a requirement - but only as a means to an end. Whether individuals reproduce or not, usually doesn't matter much unless you have really small # of individuals left and it's "have babies or go extinct". At this point, one could well argue that our species has a better shot at (longterm) survival when fewer individuals reproduce, vs. when our numbers keep increasing. If so, depopulation would enhance chance of our species' survival.
- PlunderBunny 3y agoWholeheartedly agree. It’s not a question of how many people can live, but a question of what kind of existence is possible for those that do.