This thought is a side effect of the human mind. As well as a side effect of the engine-its noise and exhaust. A side effect of the ability we need for survival to look for hidden meaning in everything.
At first, a person learned to survive in this world – to agree with the elders so that they would not take away from you but give you. I learned to get my own food, clothing, and shelter.
Then I got a little roughed up and learned how to survive – I wanted a family, and somehow children were born. It was necessary to survive now with the whole family.
As you learned this and the children began to grow up and not require so much effort from you, then there was extra time to think: Why continue to run and fuss?
This was the first impulse to think about the meaning of life.
There is such a parable from LJ:
Two chipmunks are sitting in the warm September sun and one asks the other:
“Tell me, brother, is this the meaning of life?”
Thought the second and says:
“Remember last year, brother?
– Drought, the forest is burning, there is nothing to eat, the foxes are hungry, we are hungry.
All through the fall and winter, they only had time to spin to survive.
And they didn't look for this meaning.
It turns out then that it, this meaning, was?
But look now, brother:
We are safe,
lis-no,
people don't touch it,
there is a lot of food, and we have already gathered supplies for the whole winter.
Life is a path.
But we are looking for its meaning. So we've lost it?
Because this is a fundamental question for a reasonable person. And since we are unique beings endowed with intelligence, it is not enough for us to meet the primitive needs of food and reproduction for life, we need meaning in order to fully live. I think that all the great discoveries were made in search of the meaning of life, and for everyone it is unique. In search of the meaning of life, we learn about life itself.
I think it's human nature to ask such a question .nature itself has given us this ability to think and reason.this is how we differ from animals for the better, I really hope so!
The reason is that each of us, most often on an intuitive level, understands the artificiality of our world and the universe in which we live. Then there is a desire to get an answer – ” Why are we here and what is the meaning of our life?”
And the confirmation of the artificiality of our world is another topic!
Most likely, this question has become relevant now when everything is available, a person goes online and can order anything with delivery, food, clothing, and even a woman. And there was a time when in order to satisfy your hunger, you first had to work hard and hard to exhaust the mammoth, when people were looking for an interesting book and paid decent money for it, many examples, there was a sense in all this and there were values, but now everything is there and there is no sense….
it would be strange not to think about it at all. And in general, haven't you noticed that one of the fundamental properties of a person is his search, wherever he is directed – whether in space, whether in the microcosm, whether in the biosphere, in nature, in physiology, politics, culture, a look at History, geography, an attempt to understand the structure of the body, soul, just the physical world and its role in the world of people ( or people in the world of objects) �and so on. Since man was created, the process of knowing the world around us and identifying ourselves has been his inseparable companion.
answering the question why people think about the meaning of life is just as difficult as answering the question what is the meaning of life.
I think that people started thinking about the meaning of life because they did the same thing every day: I woke up, ate, sat on the robot, came and ate, went to bed, the wheel of Sanaara turned around.
and so people began to think, and maybe I'm doing something wrong and my purpose is more important and meaningful. and now our civilization has been puzzling over this for more than one century…
This thought is a side effect of the human mind. As well as a side effect of the engine-its noise and exhaust. A side effect of the ability we need for survival to look for hidden meaning in everything.
So you don't have to worry and just enjoy life!
How it happened:
At first, a person learned to survive in this world – to agree with the elders so that they would not take away from you but give you. I learned to get my own food, clothing, and shelter.
Then I got a little roughed up and learned how to survive – I wanted a family, and somehow children were born. It was necessary to survive now with the whole family.
As you learned this and the children began to grow up and not require so much effort from you, then there was extra time to think: Why continue to run and fuss?
This was the first impulse to think about the meaning of life.
There is such a parable from LJ:
Two chipmunks are sitting in the warm September sun and one asks the other:
“Tell me, brother, is this the meaning of life?”
Thought the second and says:
“Remember last year, brother?
– Drought, the forest is burning, there is nothing to eat, the foxes are hungry, we are hungry.
All through the fall and winter, they only had time to spin to survive.
And they didn't look for this meaning.
It turns out then that it, this meaning, was?
But look now, brother:
We are safe,
lis-no,
people don't touch it,
there is a lot of food, and we have already gathered supplies for the whole winter.
Life is a path.
But we are looking for its meaning. So we've lost it?
Because this is a fundamental question for a reasonable person. And since we are unique beings endowed with intelligence, it is not enough for us to meet the primitive needs of food and reproduction for life, we need meaning in order to fully live. I think that all the great discoveries were made in search of the meaning of life, and for everyone it is unique. In search of the meaning of life, we learn about life itself.
Goal setting is one of the basic mechanisms of human intelligence.
We continuously generate more and more new goals. Near and far, simple and complex.
Naturally, there is a desire to find the biggest and most important goal. The final version. For the sake of which this is all.
But ” the cowboy job can't be finished.” There is no final goal. They need to be set again and again.
I think it's human nature to ask such a question .nature itself has given us this ability to think and reason.this is how we differ from animals for the better, I really hope so!
The reason is that each of us, most often on an intuitive level, understands the artificiality of our world and the universe in which we live. Then there is a desire to get an answer – ” Why are we here and what is the meaning of our life?”
And the confirmation of the artificiality of our world is another topic!
Most likely, this question has become relevant now when everything is available, a person goes online and can order anything with delivery, food, clothing, and even a woman. And there was a time when in order to satisfy your hunger, you first had to work hard and hard to exhaust the mammoth, when people were looking for an interesting book and paid decent money for it, many examples, there was a sense in all this and there were values, but now everything is there and there is no sense….
it would be strange not to think about it at all. And in general, haven't you noticed that one of the fundamental properties of a person is his search, wherever he is directed – whether in space, whether in the microcosm, whether in the biosphere, in nature, in physiology, politics, culture, a look at History, geography, an attempt to understand the structure of the body, soul, just the physical world and its role in the world of people ( or people in the world of objects) �and so on. Since man was created, the process of knowing the world around us and identifying ourselves has been his inseparable companion.
answering the question why people think about the meaning of life is just as difficult as answering the question what is the meaning of life.
I think that people started thinking about the meaning of life because they did the same thing every day: I woke up, ate, sat on the robot, came and ate, went to bed, the wheel of Sanaara turned around.
and so people began to think, and maybe I'm doing something wrong and my purpose is more important and meaningful. and now our civilization has been puzzling over this for more than one century…