The Purpose Of Life
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 17:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In an earlier article titled What is Life?, I took the reader through a reasoning process to finally arrive at the conclusion that, contrary to general expectation, finding a definition of life is not an overwhelmingly difficult problem at all because life is a remarkably simple concept – independent spontaneous cooperation.I think that finding a definition has been seen as difficult because those considering it have confused the definition with the underlying significance of life, which some might call life’s purpose, when the two are almost separate questions.This confusion, this perception that life is just too hard to explain, has reduced our most inspiring thinkers to the status of mere mortals. read more
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