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Originally Posted by marvin_pa
To me, the point is that legacy doesn't matter - it's what you choose to do next that does.
As for point, understanding & answers? Life & the interrelationship between mathematics, science & the apparent structure of nature & the universe (as currently understood) is just too perfect an example of randomness working out, for me to consider it an accident without purpose. There's design there, not least in the way that humans seem programmed to inquire & seek purpose/meaning in things. Even if our purpose is to discover there is no purpose & that 42 just means that you're gonna need a bigger computer...
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As for legacies: That’s the reason that we reproduce, isn’t it? Like the dog whizzing on the fire hydrant, we have that innate need to make our mark (pun — my son’s name; my confirmation name).
I love higher mathematics, but I do not
understand them — I’m a child who can grasp only the very basics. As with all hard sciences.
No, if we know anything of nature it’s that it is always
changing. That it
is evolving and that the evolution is only conditioned by
environment. There’s no design, no designer, no programming, no ticket-no laundry. No purpose outside of our needs, our basic and higher needs and desires.
I’ll repeat it again: We only need think of Kinsey and his millions of gall wasps to appreciate our random novelty. We are prone to see patterns; we’re dim-witted in that. But — in higher mathematics (eleven dimensions?) — we theorise the wholly random nature of existence.
We aren’t Punch and Judy on strings (theory — I adore puns). There’s no puppeteer. I think that we have to embrace the comedy, the absurdity, of our existence rather than expecting an Ibsen drama (no matter how realistic — major domo pun).
That’s life.