On 26 Nov 2013, at 00:32, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 25 November 2013 23:17, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]>
wrote:
2013/11/25 Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]>
On 25 November 2013 12:35:50 am AEDT, Samiya Illias wrote:
Bruno asks: "Should we search, or not, for a reason behind the
physical
reality?"
We must, otherwise this life itself doesn't make any sense. There
has to
be a purpose, and there has to be some sort of an outcome.
But why can't life lack sense and purpose? What logical or
empirical law
would that break?
You implicitly are saying:
1) The only and certain purpose is to act according with the laws.
So there
is a purpose, although not personal purpose
2)These laws are ultimate causes and conform the matter, make it
be, so as
such, They are beyond and prior to nature, that is, They are
sobrenatural.
and
3)All the Laws are known.
I'm saying that there is no logical reason why there should be any
purpose to life. What "purpose" means is pretty vague but I take it as
something over and above your (1). Atheists may find "purpose" in,
say, living a happy life or contributing to society, but there is no
logical reason for those things to happen either.
But we don't know that. There is no logical reason there shouldn't be
a purpose to life, universes and consciousness.
And there might be deep reason, yet arithmetical reasons, why we can
live happy lives.
Like they might be also reasons that it might not yet be as simple as
some would like to thought.
Bruno
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