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Doesn't this seem like a tautological purpose? Our purpose is to create a new generation of beings who question their own purpose?
by soulofmischief 2y ago
Doesn't this seem like a tautological purpose? Our purpose is to create a new generation of beings who question their own purpose?
- mrguyorama 2y agoIt's not tautological because it's objectively wrong. There is no biological purpose. We are just a multitude of chemical reactions falling down the entropy slope in a slightly odd way. "Purpose" is a concept entirely made up out of whole cloth for hairless apes who accidentally invented language and that allowed them to do a lot of thinking outside the confines of their biological processes. We are perfectly free to CHOOSE reproduction as a "purpose", but nothing about biology actually cares. If you don't reproduce, oh well, something else will take that spot in the ecosystem.
- everybodyknows 2y agoThat's the most plausible gloss I've heard. The new generation must be capable of framing a question at least as sophisticated as its parents can if there's to be hope of progress in the world. Otherwise we're on the way to "Idiocracy".