It is a matter of realization. As the boy said: "You have to realize the truth. There is no spoon"
The meaning of life surely is a mistery to many, but what isn't a mistery is the fact the we all have responsibility for our actions (burden to bear) and all kinds of institutions remind us constantly of that.
Because the Newton law and interactions between people, acts have consequences. But scientists remind us soon ther are forms of life without reproduction and actions with the surounding. That does not mean a driver is alive though.
Are we doing things freely or our life is the decisions of our substract than the mind suits with a story for the survey of each of us in a needed exchange for the survey of each others ? When you believe to decide it may be an ilusion that serves a more complex purpose than the moment. A reason to survive cause your senses basicly ask it.
Are we doing things freely or our life is the decisions of our substract than the mind suits with a story for the survey of each of us in a needed exchange for the survey of each others ? When you believe to decide it may be an ilusion that serves a more complex purpose than the moment. A reason to survive cause your senses basicly ask it.
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Of course. There is always innate versus experiential.
But it depends on what you mean by 'knowledge.'
Some of the science:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1811793115
https://elifesciences.org/articles/60546
https://sci-hub.wf/10.1007/s002210050548
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7294583/
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The meaning of life is a 40+ phenomenon?, just wondering because it happening to me.
In my view, meaning of life should at least exclude the following
1. working in a job 9.00 to 5.00+ hrs and get so engrossed in it, so as to ignore /not give time to family /friends and society
may be its time to turn inwards rather than outwards to find what the mind searches...
In my view, meaning of life should at least exclude the following
1. working in a job 9.00 to 5.00+ hrs and get so engrossed in it, so as to ignore /not give time to family /friends and society
may be its time to turn inwards rather than outwards to find what the mind searches...
Conceptually the term can be used to refer to knowledge of previous existence, knowledge of pre birth existence and/or the sum knowledge of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms.
Wise words. The mind is a very useful tool in operating within realm of form but will be a hindrance to see the fullness on the meaning of life.
Mamals are learned, rest is instinct and is not knowledge but sort of information reflex.
Epiginetic is about evolution more, interaction between the expeiences you live on your life and the way the body can live it. Illustration: body than can have genes favorizing a mental health that doe not pop up untill there is an external event in your life that trigger it. Or a social habit of a group that enforce or restrict some genetic attributes and by bouncing can have a role on evolution iirc. Illustration : way of fooding doesn't give the same diseases or advantages creating somz group profile. But it can be short term too : sport as social practice transforms fastly your body and its biology.
So Epiginetic is a vast word.
Epiginetic is about evolution more, interaction between the expeiences you live on your life and the way the body can live it. Illustration: body than can have genes favorizing a mental health that doe not pop up untill there is an external event in your life that trigger it. Or a social habit of a group that enforce or restrict some genetic attributes and by bouncing can have a role on evolution iirc. Illustration : way of fooding doesn't give the same diseases or advantages creating somz group profile. But it can be short term too : sport as social practice transforms fastly your body and its biology.
So Epiginetic is a vast word.
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For the meaning of Life with a big L, imho this is palapatibily of the body that are suited by the brain to pursue a global task: confort and survival. Then epiginetic can pop up individualy and let you do a different way which is an individual adaptation. But we enter in the indidual preference.
But the brain is so powerfull than you can be ilusioned by external interactions that doesn't follow any logic but in the pleasure of the instant or an ideal: sacrifice your life for a cause for instance whatever the cause is moraly good or bad. But I would not call that epigenetic but an attribute of our ontology made possible by the evolution (of brain here as well as the social need of the species) to believe stories.
The ontology species behind being the brain has more habiliry to question than to answer.
But the brain is so powerfull than you can be ilusioned by external interactions that doesn't follow any logic but in the pleasure of the instant or an ideal: sacrifice your life for a cause for instance whatever the cause is moraly good or bad. But I would not call that epigenetic but an attribute of our ontology made possible by the evolution (of brain here as well as the social need of the species) to believe stories.
The ontology species behind being the brain has more habiliry to question than to answer.
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There is research about such things. Things like morality and self-sacrifice are discussed in great detail in the book, "The Righteous Mind," by Jonathan Haidt. Good book, IMHO.
In relation to the quote above, not so sure you have it right. Thing is there is more than one morality. Usually when people sacrifice themselves for a cause, in their morality it is a quite righteous thing to do. That said, there are arguably some general underpinnings to human morality which are seen across the various cultures studied by Haidt. The underpinnings are called them 'Moral Foundations.' There are six or seven of them, IIRC.
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Also my limited vocabulary and grammar in your language soes not serve well my thougths. Lack the precision of the french and german. It is less simple in english.
there is no such thing as a life's motivation to (in all sincerity its the worst thing to do) sacrifice life for a cause or morality... often times than not mostly its religiously motivated...
one thing i understood is... there is more to life than just ancient beliefs of people who "have been" ... to that end i still feel, there is need to look inwards with a blank mind.
one thing i understood is... there is more to life than just ancient beliefs of people who "have been" ... to that end i still feel, there is need to look inwards with a blank mind.
The science would seem to show otherwise. Moreover, altruism is seen in other animals besides humans.
sacrificing life for a cause " often times than not mostly its religiously motivated"...
more often than not for violent purposes, there is a lot of history world over ... if you know what i mean...
especially if the cause is defined in "ancient texts and those who have beens in their times"
more often than not for violent purposes, there is a lot of history world over ... if you know what i mean...
especially if the cause is defined in "ancient texts and those who have beens in their times"
We can't talk about two or three prohibited subjects here. Forum rules, you know.
If we can try to stick with the science, that's probably allowed.
Altruism and Group Selection:
https://iep.utm.edu/altruism-and-group-selection/
Regarding more than humans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism_(biology)
If we can try to stick with the science, that's probably allowed.
Altruism and Group Selection:
https://iep.utm.edu/altruism-and-group-selection/
Regarding more than humans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism_(biology)
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I still have an issue wih ""sacrificing" life for a cause " ... one can give many examples of "altruism" , "serving" etc...
the basic problem of sacrifice life for a cause is unacceptable , be it for any purpose...then there would be many perceptions for different people of different origins and from different regions, different upbringings...
seeking the truth on one's own would be much more reawarding than belief systems...leaving behind everything thats learned from genes, survival instincts of new borns, what we are taught, etc . ...... once we know what are we physically in this world ... wouldnt it be better to seek whats the greater purpose of life? after all we are supposed to have the brain power... . thumbs up lineup for asking this question.....
"sacrifice" is trivial and serves no pupose other than ancient belief systems
the basic problem of sacrifice life for a cause is unacceptable , be it for any purpose...then there would be many perceptions for different people of different origins and from different regions, different upbringings...
seeking the truth on one's own would be much more reawarding than belief systems...leaving behind everything thats learned from genes, survival instincts of new borns, what we are taught, etc . ...... once we know what are we physically in this world ... wouldnt it be better to seek whats the greater purpose of life? after all we are supposed to have the brain power... . thumbs up lineup for asking this question.....
"sacrifice" is trivial and serves no pupose other than ancient belief systems