Does humanity exist to serve some ultimate, transcendent purpose? Conventional scientific wisdom gives the answer as a definitive no. This is the answer provided in this recent New York Times piece ‘The universe doesn’t care about your purpose’, for example, and also by physicist Lawrence Krauss in his latest book. According to Krauss, the fact that we evolved on this planet is just a “cosmic accident”, and people who believe otherwise are probably suffering from some kind of religious delusion.
I don’t think this view of life is necessarily correct, however, even though my worldview is entirely naturalistic and I usually do agree with conventional scientific wisdom. As I explain in this article I published recently in the journal Complexity, I know of one possible mechanism by which life could, in fact, be endowed with a natural purpose. To understand this mechanism, it’s necessary to understand how natural selection works.
This is a subject that I have thought about for some time, our purpose.
In my opinion, our purpose could be whatever we want it to be, but I like to think about our species as something that have huge potential, so our purpose could be to gather every knowledge there is on the universe, to understand absolutely everything, and ultimately to become a race of Gods (because if you know and understand everything, that would be like having God-like power).
So that would be our purpose if you asked. And the only way to achieve it is through science discoveries and technology innovations.
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I might suggest changing your Title to read "DOES SCIENCE REALLY SAY THERE'S NO PURPOSE OF LIFE??". Can you please also provide a link to the article that you "published recently in the journal Complexity". Thanks.
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Hey @oloruntoyin! Next time you use the #steemstem, please stick to the guidlines. For example, use pictures that are NOT copyright protected and cite them. Also use scientific sources and write either a well-supported argument or a well written review post. Either way, you need to cite what your are quoting. As of now, this post does not meet any of the #steemstem requirements. Cheers!
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I think maybe you got this article from: Does Science Really Say There’s No Purpose to Life? by Michael E. Price, who also wrote this article in the journal of Complexity: Price, M.E. Entropy and Selection: Life as an Adaptation for Universe Replication. Complexity Volume 2017, Article ID 4745379 (2017).
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