I've recently watched a video titled "on the purpose of Life"[1], from YouTuber Robert Murray-Smith, who usually posts videos about tech and science, mostly gra

I've recently watched a video titled "on the purpose of Life"[1], from YouTuber Robert Murray-Smith, who usually posts videos about tech and science, mostly graphene-related stuff. He makes a nice point that trying to assign a purpose to everything we do, and to Life itself, may be a mistake. He takes animal behavior as a comparison. Animals usually don't act in order to achieve a high-level goal. They do things because that's what they are built to do. Most of their actions are consequences of basic impulses, emotions and instincts. Now I understand we are highly sophisticated mammals with big brains, and as such we are capable of acting on a rational basis towards an abstract notion of a goal often simplistically called "happiness", for instance. Yet we are still very much animals, so it may be very wrong to think all our actions should be based on this mode of behavior. If we do we may face the absence of a definitive answer to our quest for purpose, which would explain our tendency to jump into goals made up by religion, or into philosophical wanderings which can sometimes be quite unsettling. 1. https://youtube.com/watch?v=xc7kM0mSVfw https://youtube.com/watch?v=xc7kM0mSVfw