Thursday, February 16, 2006

Dreamland Meaning Of Life

Interesting results surfaced in our philosophy department this week. I've got an activity report in my hand that is a major step forward to discover the true meaning of life.
Without any further comments here is the report:

Project Dreamland Inc.
The Meaning Of Life
Ongoing research, activity report no. 14A42
Lead scientist: Helmut Bremmel

The philosophy department is close to find out all about the meaning of life and we are very proud to state some of our results in this report.
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Let us think about a human, one that is blind, deaf and mute. And while any real human being would still be able to taste or feel a touch, this one cannot. So, this person is missing all of our 5 senses and to rule out any possibilities of undiscovered senses, let us say this human is not receiving ANY input from the world it lives in. The question arises if a person such as this is able to live and if yes, if it would develop and in what way?
Our assumption was that without any input a human being will not develop and will die. This is not so wrong, as history tells us in an experiment, that babies when growing up without love and attention will eventually die.
Now, if we can conclude that the state of receiving no inputs is death, we may conclude the opposite, that a state of receiving many inputs is life. Actually this would be our definition of life: It is the state of a being that is able to process inputs at points when there are many inputs to process.

The meaning builds atop of this as the work becomes the purpose. The purpose or the meaning of life is to process inputs. There's no obligation to derive anything great or to achieve anything outstandingly. We can go so far as to say it doesn't demand any form of output. A living being, one that is processing inputs, is only supposed to continue what it's doing. What could be simpler? And what could explain more why death hits us that hard?