On 27 November 2013 06:39, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > But we don't know that. There is no logical reason there shouldn't be a > purpose to life, universes and consciousness. >
No logical reason, but there's no obvious sign that there is one. > 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. > In my opinion "purpose" implies a goal, which implies that one outcome has been selected from a number of possibilities. This implies a conscious choice was involved, which is why I said something like God would be required to give the universe a purpose. Without that element of choice you can't have a goal / aim / purpose, and you "just" have inevitability, the inexorable results of the laws of physics (which aren't purposeful in any meaningful sense, as far as I know). I would say that any "purpose" that exists within arithmetic would be of the "laws of physics" kind, it would be a logical inevitability, rather than something consciously selected. (Perhaps...) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
