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    There is an opinion (it was first expressed, I think, by Dawkins) that purely biologically a species does not and cannot have any global goal. The gene has a goal, and that goal is self – replication. In short, the purpose of our genes is to reproduce their carriers. And since the carrier of our genes is a species, we can conclude that the global goal of our species is reproduction. I must say that we are very successfully coping with this. Among the biological goals, I would also mention expansion and survival, i.e. spread over the largest possible territory (done) and the longest possible period of existence (there are problems with this: sapiens is one of the youngest species on the planet, and it is not a fact that it can survive at least as long as the Neanderthal) . In fact, these two goals can also be included in replication, because the more widespread a species is and the longer it exists, the higher the probability of successful replication of its genes.

    My answer, of course, is not philosophical at all, because, to be honest, I do not know the philosophical answer to this question. It seems to me that humanity does not and cannot have any global goal other than the one that we as a society will set for ourselves. But any such goal will be short-term in the scale of the species ' existence. I think that today the only global goal of humanity is simply to survive on a planet with less than 100 years of resources left. Having achieved this goal, humanity will be able to think about the next one. But most likely, it will be some other, more sensitive and more rational people than we are.

    There is no need to talk about any global goal as long as the current social structure of society exists. Stupid survival. There are a million utopian devices of society, but no one has answered one simple question. How to switch from the current social device to a reasonable one.

    The global goal of humanity, if we take it as a kind of higher original idea, does not exist.

    Just like our universe, and the whole concept of multiverses from 1 to 4 order-there is no sense, they just formed and exist, because it happened.

    • Even if you take some virtual world created by a type 6 civilization (Natural Gods), in which they laid down some task. This civilization itself does not have the same initial goal. And then in order, no matter how many levels we put there.

    The biological goal is to breed and reproduce, to ensure the sustainable existence and spread of the species to all available territories.

    • Since humanity is an intelligent species capable of socialization and the creation of a developed civilization, which means that the possibilities for expansion extend beyond the native biosphere, the biological goal for us becomes more cunning and implies the spread of the Earth's biosphere itself to other celestial bodies.

    That is, in fact, we are a tool of nature, which will have to spread this very nature throughout space (Terraforming and colonization), increasing the chances of its survival.

    It is a risky tool, because self-consciousness has given us weapons of mass destruction, and if we fail by man-made means, we can set the biosphere back several million years, which will go to the formation of a new intelligent species, but the speed of expansion, if successful, is orders of magnitude faster than alternative methods of distribution.

    The bacteria thrown into outer space, once on a comet, may not leave their native star system, and if they do, they will not get anywhere for billions of years. Plus, even when they get somewhere in microscopic volumes, the formation of life there will take the same billions of years. An intelligent ocean sending spores into space will take the same amount of time. Some semi-intelligent insectoids might not do very well either.

    On the other hand, people can buy a space fleet in the pursuit of profit and cut asteroid belts for resources in the pursuit of profit, pump fuel from the stars and settle their immortal carcasses on some viable planets, reducing the process of forming a developed biosphere from several billion years to the level as quickly as finances allow. At least for a hundred years to turn a dead stone into a blooming garden of Eden.

    The tactical goal of humans as an intelligent species is simply to evolve to achieve dominance through expansive and intensive methods. And do not let yourself be devoured by larger civilizations (If they exist, of course).

    But philosophical goals, universal, national, personal – there can be any number of them, people themselves invent them in any form. To each his own.

    Evolution. Become a multicellular organism from a set of unicellular ones. This is a small group issue. And to do this, you need to realize the involution of biology, MF relations as a basis and reproduction.

    the previous answerer said almost correctly,but mixed up two different goals.

    “to be fruitful and multiply” is the creator's goal for humanity.

    to study space – this could be called a global goal, if humanity first studied itself and the earth in general, and then would start to space, otherwise in today's wild mental state it will break firewood in space and humanity will be destroyed.

    Based on the above,I consider the global goal of humanity to study and define itself, then or simultaneously study the earth,and then space!

    I think that the global goal of humanity is, first of all, development. That is, getting various innovations in the same area of technology. It is very important that the human race is developed for the future of the entire planet. It is necessary to come up with new ways to get rid of problems, the same pollution from enterprises is a disaster, and in more developed countries they have long been trying to make sure that this catastrophe does not happen. Let's hope that someday humanity will find a way to be developed in everything.

    Interesting question. And for the answer to it, there are different options for each of them.

    Believers you will be told that the goal of life is the pursuit of the divine. To live a righteous life and thus approach the supreme being.

    The ancient Slavs considered for themselves the goal of unity with nature, finding harmony in the universe.

    Modern people see goals in self-development. Both carnal and intellectual.

    Pacifists and Atheists will say that there are no goals, and the only scientific explanation is reproduction.

    There is also a view

    who change the world and the environment for themselves, and make it the goal of their life and their kind.

    There are many answers, as well as opinions on this issue. And there is no unity on this issue. To consider this or that as correct or not correct is incorrect. And if the answer has many meanings, then the problem is too difficult to solve, you need to move on and perhaps our descendants will finally be able to solve it.

    It is difficult to fully define the meaning and purpose of one life. And here is humanity!

    Or maybe there is simply no goal in the global sense? And this question simply arises at a certain point in people who are inclined to philosophical reflections. And others do not arise at all, and it is not known who benefits from this))

    Here we are, thinking, searching, and digging… And the other is just happy that he is alive, it is snowing, he is relatively healthy, and tomorrow-to work. And-grateful. And there are those who have a very sad life (from our point of view). But he also finds joy in it. Maybe it's simple? Just TO BE?

    In one word-in progress. Well, or in development. To explore the world. In the search for istena :):):) In the pursuit of objectivity. But not in breeding for the sake of breeding, that's for sure.

    Apparently, humanity is an intermediate stage in the evolution of intelligence. Even geniuses don't have much intelligence. Humanity has a limit to its cultivation. This is the reason for the intermediate stage.

    And thoughts about the lack of a global goal are wrong exactly as animals that do not understand that they are being raised for slaughter for the sake of their meat.

    And they live happily ever after without knowing it.

    Preserve the miracle of intelligent life, the miracle of civilization, the miracle of human existence and ” revive”it The universe

    Today, there is no evidence that the miracle of the birth of intelligent life could have occurred anywhere else in the universe other than Earth. The fact that intelligent life is a miracle becomes obvious if you look at the history of its origin on Earth-a lot of extremely unlikely random events. The human civilization that emerged on Earth is also a miracle. It follows that humanity is called to fulfill the first Great mission-to preserve the miracle of intelligent life and human civilization, to become an indestructible powerful civilization, which is impossible without fulfilling the second Great Mission – to revive the Cosmos, fill it with the existence of intelligent life, since only this will allow us to cope with the main vulnerability of existence in the raging catastrophes of The third Great mission of our civilization and each of the people is to accumulate the experience of intelligent life (for each individual person – even just living his life), and for the civilization so far very successful: for some insignificant on a cosmic scale, 5-10 thousand years (estimates of various experts) of our civilization, we, despite many mistakes and endless self-destructive wars, managed to achieve incredible, unthinkable at the dawn of civilization, success in creating all kinds of technologies. And, of course, the development of” best practices ” of intelligent existence and the creation of creative masterpieces of the mind.

    The fact that these are not simple tasks, not simple missions, is indicated by the fact that there are countless threats that can destroy humanity (see # REL_TCNS ). Therefore, the key task of the Great Missions of humanity is its indestructibility, invulnerability, increasing its ability not to fall victim to countless threats (let's call this ability the power of humanity).

    The greatest vulnerability for a civilization is the absolute dependence of its fate on the fate of the spaces it occupies, which today are limited only to the planet Earth. Therefore, the most important task is to continuously build up new life and evacuation spaces in Space, and at the same time, fill lifeless spaces with intelligent life, being “and ” revitalization” The universe.

    And every person who by any constructive action contributes to the development of human civilization and the wonderfulness of human existence, simply helps other people in their existence, in their constructive participation in human civilization, thereby participates in these Great Missions, contributes to their fulfillment, fulfills these Great Missions.

    The global goal of humanity is to know life, settle on the planets of the universe and start life there.

    This is stated in the oldest religion, Zoroastrianism. “Zoro Astr” basically means “living star”, the project of settling humanity in other star systems.

    Zoroaster points out a critical factor for the fulfillment of this task – the free moral choice of good thoughts, good words and good deeds by a person.

    So far, humanity is going strictly in the opposite direction, repeatedly “freely choosing” slavery, wars, degradation and destruction.

    I don't believe that humanity has any God-appointed purpose. we're on our own here, and we're free to do whatever we want. I would like us to develop the ideas of humanism and equality.

    For those who believe in the existence of a certain higher intelligence, in the form of gods, superintelligent aliens, and so on, it is much easier to answer the question about the existence of the great purpose of the existence of humanity, about its purpose: “the great ones know, but we, mere mortals, are not supposed to know this.” Others fantasize and choose the ideas that they find most attractive from science fiction books and movies. Some believe that humanity should populate the universe with life, others that it would be nice to populate your planet with life first, build underwater cities, adapt your body to life in just shorts in the Arctic, etc.

    Undoubtedly, all this will happen sometime. Something that now seems fantastic will happen in 50 years, and humanity will reach something only in a thousand. If he lives.

    Thus, any great goal implies, as a basis, the preservation of life and the development of humanity. That is, the minimum program for the existence of humanity is its preservation and development. Proven by history. So far, these goals are winning. If civilization disappears, it will be possible to state that the goal of humanity was self-destruction. Only there will be no one to draw such a conclusion. As long as we are alive, our goal is to live for ourselves, give life to our descendants, and create conditions in which they can continue to live.

    In fact, this can be called building the future. And we've heard this goal before. Only we often associate this goal with something fantastic. This is good, of course, but they say you need to set real goals. That is, it is worth imagining the foundations of the society that will be after us. What will it be based on, what ideas, laws, morals, etc.? In this regard, everything is very simple: we look at our society, take away from it everything that seems bad and wrong to us – we get an ideal society. Yes, it will not become so in a certain period of time, but we will implement this idea ourselves: we vote for ideas, we choose representatives of the people who express our vision of the future society, we criticize those who do not conform to this vision, we tell our children what is right and what is wrong. And our children will shape society based on the ideals that we have convinced them of. They will make decisions, laws, they will vote for them, they will write devastating articles about what was done badly. It's just like us.

    Why would many of us, middle-aged people, need laws that, perhaps, will no longer affect us due to our age? In order for our descendants to live in more favorable conditions, so that the probability of continuing the existence and development of humanity is higher.

    From this it follows that the ” builders of the future “are not only those who are” in the foreground”, who push science forward, who perform labor feats, and so on, but everyone. Everyone who in any way forms (supports, distributes) the ideas of a society aimed at its preservation and development. This, in general, is the minimum program for each of us and all of us together.

    Improve yourself and your environment . Every Person born on Earth is a brick of the Universe, capable of creating and changing worlds . The knowledge of self and of God in himself-that is, God created his Creation in his own image and likeness .

    In my opinion, the global goal of humanity cannot be separated from the global goal of life itself.

    Once on something inanimate, something alive is born and begins a slow but thorough expansion. With the help of extremely well-thought-out mechanisms, finding hundreds of thousands of amazing and ingenious solutions, life fills all the corners and spaces of the captured object.

    When the variety of forms and ways of survival is already sufficient for comfortable living on the chosen planet, the question arises about the further spread of the seeds of life to other suitable objects.

    Since all living things known to us are guided by two key tasks-reproduction and self-preservation, it should be assumed that life itself has the same goals.

    And when there are no more undeveloped spaces on the planet, life creates creatures that can transfer its seeds to other objects in the universe.

    Will these mysterious creatures called humans solve this problem or not? Or maybe this task has already been solved? Maybe somewhere on the Moon the first inhabitants of the moon are already clinging to life – some extremophile bacteria?

    Anything can happen, but it is safer to assume that this is all fiction, and life and humanity do not have any well – thought-out strategies-everything is at random.

    You can't even imagine what a “global goal” humanity has! And even humanity itself is not aware of this goal..They don't even think that their goal is to destroy their own kind….And more specifically-themselves.And when this happens, they will be surprised at it…And why did this happen? That's not what we wanted!

    Judging by the actions of the vast majority of modern “leaders” of various countries and peoples, the goal of humanity is to destroy itself and its own kind as soon as possible.

    The goal is not only for humanity, but for all life on earth and in the entire universe. Connect the spiritual world, the divine world, with the material world, our world! The spiritual world does not have the ability to fully influence the material world, just as we cannot touch, in the actual sense, the spiritual world. The key to this goal is to become the rightful owner of everything material that is entrusted to us as living beings. Only then will we be able to touch the Lord as an equal to an equal. And then, most likely, the “egg-sperm” principle will work and something incredibly new will be born!

    Continuation of the genus 🙂 everything is simple and banal. Each of us has basic emotional needs and we try to meet them in any way, even compensating with bad habits and addictions.

    Humanity has no goal — everything has a goal, nature has a goal, if you will. So I, as Aspot the Great Boh, today set my goal to continue to create a mess. Well, you'll be there sometime.

    “Explore strange new worlds. Search for new life forms and civilizations. Boldly go where no man has ever set foot”

    (c) Star Trek

    The original strategic goal of humanity, like any other biological species, is to “multiply and multiply”, ensuring the survival of the species. Being an extremely aggressive, expansionist species, humans try to expand into as large an area of their habitat as possible, which, in fact, is the best survival strategy.

    This in itself is not bad, but when a limited space runs out of space, problems start. Therefore, as Stephen Hawking said, for the survival and further progress of mankind, it is extremely necessary for it to develop space technologies and extend its expansion to other planets. Apparently, this is our next tactical goal in the future.

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