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Posted by alexandra_k on January 3, 2006, at 22:15:52

In reply to Re: » Susan47, posted by alexandra_k on January 3, 2006, at 22:10:23

purpose
why does the universe exist?
this is thought to be...
a question without an answer.
wittgenstein thought that it was a question that could never be answered.
like 'why is there something that it is like to be me'
he thought that was a question that could never be answered as well.
reason
purpose
for existence...
if you have certain goals...
then there can be reason / purpose.
if your aim is survival / reproduction
if your aim is to seek pleasure and to avoid pain
then there are reasons
and then...
the purpose of my doing x can be explained by recourse to my achieving the aim.
so...
people say the 'function' (purpose) of the heart is to pump blood...
but it gets its function because we have the aim of continued existence...
why do we have that aim?
without it...
we would not exist.
and maybe that is all that can be said...
i don't know.

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