To live a merry life with the ones you love, hate, and are indifferent of. To spend your time wisely gaining knowledge, and to one day pass it on to your younger family in hopes that they do the same. That, is the meaning of life. (Also 42 loloololol)
Experience, progress.
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[QUOTE=ThePuska;24464320]It's just an anomaly, sophisticated patterns arising from entropy, to increase entropy. Similarly to how a droplet of ink may form beautiful swirls in water just before it disperses. You do not ask the droplet what its goal is.[/QUOTE]
This is actually wrong. Droplet of ink isn't alive, so it liable to entropy, like almost everything in universe, except life. Life stands up against entropy.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;24465456]This is actually wrong. Droplet of ink isn't alive, so it liable to entropy, like almost everything in universe, except life. Life stands up against entropy.[/QUOTE]
Life consumes more than it produces. No organism or machine is perfectly efficient. Part of the energy can be used to apparently defy entropy: to build biomass or structures, but some of it is always wasted. Life is not self-sustainable because of that energy leak. That's why we need primary producers that rely on external energy.
[QUOTE=ThePuska;24466865]Life consumes more than it produces. No organism or machine is perfectly efficient. Part of the energy can be used to apparently defy entropy: to build biomass or structures, but some of it is always wasted. Life is not self-sustainable because of that energy leak. That's why we need primary producers that rely on external energy.[/QUOTE]
But energy =/= entropy. I would say that earths surface is much more entropic than whole mass of sun, as sun is (strongly simplified) just a giant ball of fusing gasses, without possibility to hold any useful information.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;24468868]But energy =/= entropy. I would say that earths surface is much more entropic than whole mass of sun, as sun is (strongly simplified) just a giant ball of fusing gasses, without possibility to hold any useful information.[/QUOTE]
holy :aaaaa:
To be happy and to make others happy, live to your potential and not be afraid of death.
Don't die before it's your time and whatever happens, roll with it.
The goal in life is whatever you want it to be, there is no purpose or over layering scheme but the one you present yourself with.
[QUOTE=zergzar;24450197]To do what your instincts tell you to do and survive for as long as you can.[/QUOTE]
I'd say it was the complete opposite.
One of the bonuses of being a sentient species is that we can decide what our goal in life is.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;24468868]But energy =/= entropy. I would say that earths surface is much more entropic than whole mass of sun, as sun is (strongly simplified) just a giant ball of fusing gasses, without possibility to hold any useful information.[/QUOTE]
The usefulness of information is a bad gauge. Black holes appear to hold no useful information, but their evaporation is yet another example of entropy increasing. It seems that nature abhors a vacuum, and to solve that, energy must be spread as thin as possible. That's entropy. Energy differences even out as energy disperses.
That's what's happening with the Sun and Earth. The Sun is losing its energy into space, and Earth is in the way. Life on Earth may use that energy to slow down entropy locally, but as a whole the entropy of the solar system is still increasing. Earth can't hold that energy in either, it's also radiating heat, and life is consuming itself, weather is breaking structures et cetera. Life can hold entropy back, but not go against it.
The only way to "stop" entropy would be to build a perpetual motion machine. A device that recycles its own energy, never wearing out or losing energy.
The goal is to complete all the achievements on the fap list.
[QUOTE=ThePuska;24471455]The usefulness of information is a bad gauge. Black holes appear to hold no useful information, but their evaporation is yet another example of entropy increasing. It seems that nature abhors a vacuum, and to solve that, energy must be spread as thin as possible. That's entropy. Energy differences even out as energy disperses.
That's what's happening with the Sun and Earth. The Sun is losing its energy into space, and Earth is in the way. Life on Earth may use that energy to slow down entropy locally, but as a whole the entropy of the solar system is still increasing. Earth can't hold that energy in either, it's also radiating heat, and life is consuming itself, weather is breaking structures et cetera. Life can hold entropy back, but not go against it.
The only way to "stop" entropy would be to build a perpetual motion machine. A device that recycles its own energy, never wearing out or losing energy.[/QUOTE]
Yes, entropy cannot be overcame, but life is fighting the fight, even through apparently lost. Black holes might create some entropy during evaporation, but they destroy much more of it during their growth.
If there was no life on Earth, all the energy coming from sun would only erode earth more would actually partake in directly increasing the entropy. The life on earth on the other side actually uses the energy in it's fight against entropy.
Entropy will most probably be the end of this universe, but what I believe is, that the highest goal which life as whole could have is fighting it, even if just to postpone it.
My idea of the goal of life, is that on your day of death, you're able to tell yourself your life was worth living.
Also rather die young and happy than old and sad.
Goal of my life: Live it out and enjoy it
[QUOTE=Tools;24472845]My idea of the goal of life, is that on your day of death, you're able to tell yourself your life was worth living.
Also rather die young and happy than old and sad.[/QUOTE]
True, thats a good theory, the best imo
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