What does "Life" means to you?
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You're making me want to get some Arby's! Haven't had that in forever. I suppose that's what life is. Not forgetting those important you, whether it be family, friends, or Arby's roast beef melts.SlickShot said:
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For real though, it sucks. Sure you get those oh so warm and fuzzy memories, but it won't matter in the end. They'll all be erased, like a complete defrag on a hard drive.
For real though, it sucks. Sure you get those oh so warm and fuzzy memories, but it won't matter in the end. They'll all be erased, like a complete defrag on a hard drive.
A life is not something you are born with; it is something you make.
A living thing does not have to have a life. A living thing, as defined by myself (since there isn't that great of one anywhere, we should all make our own or strive for a unified definition), is an organized system of information that works to self-preserve that system. A life is created by interacting, changing, altering, interpreting, and pondering the environment beyond self-preservation.
Thus, while bacteria and plants are living, animals are capable of lives (course, there would be a varying degree). I see humans and a fair few other mammals capable of life. Avians included.
This is what you come up with when you spend too much time thinking ^.^
A living thing does not have to have a life. A living thing, as defined by myself (since there isn't that great of one anywhere, we should all make our own or strive for a unified definition), is an organized system of information that works to self-preserve that system. A life is created by interacting, changing, altering, interpreting, and pondering the environment beyond self-preservation.
Thus, while bacteria and plants are living, animals are capable of lives (course, there would be a varying degree). I see humans and a fair few other mammals capable of life. Avians included.
This is what you come up with when you spend too much time thinking ^.^
Life doesn't have any meaning, even if you put meaning into it. It's those strange little things in life that have meaning. The people you love and care about have meaning. The special times and things in your life have meaning. But life? Life is meaningless crap.
I only have a few ultimate goals in life:
1. Stay alive long enough so that I can be killed off as an old grandmother in an epic giant robot battle.
2. When the huge metal arm-gun aims at me, look back on my life's best moments, remember everybody I've loved, and decide that I lived a nice life.
I only have a few ultimate goals in life:
1. Stay alive long enough so that I can be killed off as an old grandmother in an epic giant robot battle.
2. When the huge metal arm-gun aims at me, look back on my life's best moments, remember everybody I've loved, and decide that I lived a nice life.
Life is just a particular arrangement of matter that can keep producing copies of itself. Maybe you're asking about consciousness?
Consciousness is the amalgamation of a sentient organism's sensory perception of the world around it. What you see is not what's there, just an image of the light that is reflecting off what WAS there a nanosecond ago (or in the case of stars, a million years ago).
Death is the natural order of things in the universe. Life and consciousness are an oddity.
Nobody can be happy without believing an illusion. Knowledge of the truth bears no happiness beyond allowing for more elaborate illusions. That illusion might be that after we die we will be remembered or that we accomplished something longlasting. This is an illusion because even if we did, we wouldn't be aware of the result of it, because we're dead. The thought that we will be remembered or that our life mattered keeps us happy in our last moments.
But dying happy is also an illusion, what is the ultimate culmination of a few seconds of happiness in your long life? And what does it really count for once you're dead? You won't remember it, because you won't exist after it.
Some people go with the illusion of a loving god or an afterlife, comparatively simple illusions because they don't demand inquiry or deep understanding. Some people (like me) go with the more elaborate illusion of understanding the nature of life and death through science. But we aren't actually observing the physical universe as it is, only as we can perceive it. Objective truth is ultimately unknowable through the scope of a subjective consciousness. We like to think that it isn't though, and that's where the satisfaction of scientific enquiry comes from. The illusion of objective truth.
So life and consciousness, being the only things we've ever known as sentient beings, subjectively end up being a quest for happiness; and happiness can only be brought about by an illusion. So pick whatever illusion's complexity goes with your inquisitive demands; the simple illusions will satisfy a layman, but not a skeptic. That's what life is to me.
Objectively, life is meaningless, fleeting and ultimately counts for nothing when the universe dries up. But who cares about the objective universe? It's not like we exist in it.
Consciousness is the amalgamation of a sentient organism's sensory perception of the world around it. What you see is not what's there, just an image of the light that is reflecting off what WAS there a nanosecond ago (or in the case of stars, a million years ago).
Death is the natural order of things in the universe. Life and consciousness are an oddity.
Nobody can be happy without believing an illusion. Knowledge of the truth bears no happiness beyond allowing for more elaborate illusions. That illusion might be that after we die we will be remembered or that we accomplished something longlasting. This is an illusion because even if we did, we wouldn't be aware of the result of it, because we're dead. The thought that we will be remembered or that our life mattered keeps us happy in our last moments.
But dying happy is also an illusion, what is the ultimate culmination of a few seconds of happiness in your long life? And what does it really count for once you're dead? You won't remember it, because you won't exist after it.
Some people go with the illusion of a loving god or an afterlife, comparatively simple illusions because they don't demand inquiry or deep understanding. Some people (like me) go with the more elaborate illusion of understanding the nature of life and death through science. But we aren't actually observing the physical universe as it is, only as we can perceive it. Objective truth is ultimately unknowable through the scope of a subjective consciousness. We like to think that it isn't though, and that's where the satisfaction of scientific enquiry comes from. The illusion of objective truth.
So life and consciousness, being the only things we've ever known as sentient beings, subjectively end up being a quest for happiness; and happiness can only be brought about by an illusion. So pick whatever illusion's complexity goes with your inquisitive demands; the simple illusions will satisfy a layman, but not a skeptic. That's what life is to me.
Objectively, life is meaningless, fleeting and ultimately counts for nothing when the universe dries up. But who cares about the objective universe? It's not like we exist in it.
Life is like a butterfly... Uhm... *sings whatever the lyrics are*
I've heard some funny quotes like, "life is like a box of chocolates, too much and you feel sick" so I'll go with one of them.
I've heard some funny quotes like, "life is like a box of chocolates, too much and you feel sick" so I'll go with one of them.
Shit not an easy question. Life to me at the moment is studying and trying to find a job, paying bills and being poor. Student life sucks. I guess the point is to either a) mature, reproduce, die. Or b) something more profound that I can't think of right now.... However does make you think eh.