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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 36 minutes ago

My body is a machine that concerts big packets of energy into multiple tiny packets of energy

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

But Doctor, I already am very hot stuff

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

To become crab

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

The purpose of life is to reproduce?

The purpose of physics is to regulate pressure.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 26 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The purpose of life is to take disordered stuff, and order it, for a time.

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 hours ago

Life accelerates disorder through order.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

The purpose of life is to stress test the simulation.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Any idea we can come up with within the simulation has to be computable by the simulation itself. Since that is touring-complete, the simulation cannot predict its own outcome; therefore whoever runs the simulation probably doesn't know our fate yet.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

I guess we just keep on touring then.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The purpose of life is to take entropy and push it somewhere else.

[–] ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

because it makes me happy to post this

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago

A level twist that they actually do so and still get crushed.

Just like real life.

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

At least pushing it is free :)

the purpose of life is to progress entropy.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The purpose of life (heat) is to generate more life (more heat) in a never-ending cycle of heat generation until the heat death of the universe.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2 points 7 hours ago

We aren't generating heat, we're redistributing heat from the stars to everywhere else

[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 3 points 8 hours ago

Purpose is a human concept that is not a property of the universe.

[–] brem@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

The purpose of life is to is (or be)

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The purpose of generating hot stuff is to reproduce.

[–] jared@mander.xyz 3 points 9 hours ago

In comfort.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

The purpose of life is to increase entropy by temporarily embodying the decrease in entropy

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

The purpose of life is to post dank memes on the internet

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LoonyLenny 2 points 6 hours ago

Shiny spinny things 😄

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

The purpose of life it to accelerate the entropy of the universe

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

The purpose of life is for the universe to experience itself.

[–] LoonyLenny 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

All that we can do is just survive
All that we can do to help ourselves
Is stay alive…

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I know I know this, but I can't quite place it. it's a Rush song, right?

[–] LoonyLenny 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Red Sector A, Im going to the concert so Im learning all their Retrospectives.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

On the first frame, 'The purpose of life is to reproduce'..

Shouldn't that frame be an X-Ray of testicles, not the brain?

I think our human form is just guided by sperm and eggs, and we walking humans are the mobile creatures to carry them around...