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The purpose of your life and the origin of our universe.
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VK3DRB:
Why are we here?

Here are a few answers, some of which may be not politically correct:

1. To finish the "To Do" list presented to me on my wedding day. "And when you get to the bottom of the list, here is another one."
2. To pay taxes upon taxes, unless you are super wealthy.
3. To fill your brain with electronics theory. A form of self flagellation?
4. To contribute to the bank accounts of the rich and powerful. After all, Bezos and Gates need more money, don't they?
5. To love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. Boy have I fallen short - I often think about electronics. And finishing that dreaded list.
6. To go forth and multiply. Yep done that, and I can even do long division without a calculator.
7. Forty-two.
and for the young...
8. Your mobile phone.

Actually the reason we are here is fundamentally is a very good question. But there will be an answer.

A question I asked a minister once was "If your parents had never met, would you have been born?" His answer was... "Good question!"
Brumby:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on January 30, 2020, 03:18:49 pm ---We are a quantum fluctuation. Blame it on Heisenberg.

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You can't be certain about that.
Brumby:

--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on January 30, 2020, 11:00:14 am ---Animals are not given metacognition.. some homo sapiens too, to some extend dont use it very well, or not at all..

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Recursive thinking..... ?

There's a disaster waiting to happen ... ... ... or has it happened already?
hamster_nz:

--- Quote from: BravoV on January 29, 2020, 04:13:27 am ---At the end, its all about low temperature chemical reactions at the surface on earth, and will stop once it reached equilibrium if there is no space colonization, or just wait till the sun goes bang/expand and roast everything.

Like a really faint blip in pico or femto seconds at universe's clock.

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Got to do something with all that low-entropy sunlight...

I am more amazed with how slow life progresses. Things happen in pico and nanosecond timescales...
TerraHertz:
All the evolutionary stages of non-sentient life have no 'purpose', they just are, like rocks and sky. Physical memes, ie assemblages of functional self-replicating information, instantiated in constructs of complex molecules, existing wherever energy flows and chemical conditions permit.

Once sentience develops, it has the capability of choosing purpose for itself. However it still has to work its way through the thickets of many dysfunctional, parasitic worldview memes. Such as belief systems that insist 'purpose' is imposed from claimed external entities, without actually being able to demonstrate true sources or proof of concept.

Eventually, if it's lucky, sentience arrives at a belief system that enables both personal choice of purpose, AND a functional scientific approach to learning and investigation of reality. If it's even luckier (or stronge enough) sentience can hold onto this, despite efforts of The Stupid to drag it back down into more primitive meme sets.

And then... Sentience develops the branches of science required to effectively manipulate the underlying chemical coding schemes of their own physical bodies. Now it's a loop, with feedback.  Genes --> physical form --> sentience --> genes.

We're close to that point. Unfortunately it's a point past which all bets are off. There are infinitely many diverging paths, most with pretty grim destinations.

Technology is incompatible with species. You can't maintain species consistency of code-base, when some individuals have the tech to modify their own code at will. Not to mention performing involuntary mass-edits (or kills) on others via contagious gene-editing vectors.

However there are some paths, for some, that have great outcomes. It's all about the purpose you choose for yourself.

Anyone have a good source of telomerase?

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Btw, did you know the Wuhan corona-virus just happens to be highly selective for individuals of Asian genetic heritage?
  https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full
  Single-cell RNA expression profiling of ACE2, the putative receptor of Wuhan 2019-nCov

And some familiar names turn up...
  https://futurism.com/neoscope/recent-simulation-coronavirus-killed-65-million-people

Incidentally, if you want to see a fine example of the variation of search result themes between google and duckduckgo, give each of them the search term "coronavirus patent Gates"


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