[Krimel] I would say that life does have a purpose. Its purpose is the continue living, to grow and reproduce itself.
[Arlo] Does this mean that people who do not seed children are violating life's purpose? Is a (wo)man born sterile "purposeless"? And if our purpose is simply "to continue living", it really doesn't answer the "teleological" question of "what for?" Why should I keep living? Because I am a cog in a wheel that needs to keep spinning? Great. [Krimel] Well that goes back to your original contention that purpose is located in your head. Purpose is only relevant to the purposeful agent. I was confusing this with activities of the invisible hand which suggests the trajectory of individual agents by the pattern exhibited by lots of them. Does this make teleology probabilistic as well? my, my. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
