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Tap for spoilerWe can't even say for sure that the meaning of life isn't to get smushed by an asteroid. i'm gonna go lie down, and then i'm gonna write one HELL of a got dang treatise

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Biologists said what philosophers were too chicken shit too. The meaning of life is to reproduce.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But what is the meaning of reproduction?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's why we call it the circle of life.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

Life and reproduction are co-evolved emergent phenomena that sprang from a chemical accident where a molecule inadvertently found a way to replicate itself.

... but actually it might be more complicated than that. There might have been a set of molecules and chemical interactions that weren't quite self-replicating but ultimately led to that self-replicating molecule. However, once that exists, you end up with a runaway chemical reaction that can last for literally billions of years.

TL;DR primordial soup is an ignition starter motor.

[–] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

No it's not, the processes of life as such are meaningless 🤷🏼

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's not very fair. We don't have the answers, but that's definitely not because of a lack of trying. Brightest minds have spent their lives on this.