I think I understand Nihilism now, I
really do.
Real communication is an illusion, a
mirage; there's always an unbreakable frontier; our language is so
limited and rudimentary. (Am I Forgetting art? There's a case to be
made for art). As individuals in this world at this point in time,
there is no grand scheme, there is no purpose, no answer to look
forward to...
Of course there's that one very big
thing: Life.
Life, or matter or energy or whatever
you wish to call it, is doing something. It's hard to say what exactly, but it is doing something. I guess it's a good bet to somehow help
it keep going: reproducing ourselves, trying to make
improvements in the way to best sustain it. Although, all you could
hope to achieve is very little and it is unlikely you would be
able to make an impact. Think about it, life would be roughly at the
same place without da Vinci, or Napoleon, or Einstein.
But life is not completely devoid of
answers, we have some information pre-programmed in our 'default
installation', we call it instincts. By various mechanisms we're
compelled to do a bunch of things. Don't die - or at the minimum
don't die before you reproduce - is the main one. There are a couple
of other more subtle ones; as intelligence develops, all animals
start developing at roughly the same rate instinctive curiosity, a
desire for knowledge. At later stages of intelligence (I can only
theorise, there are but a couple of examples) we have an instinctive
desire to do things, manipulate the things curiosity helped us
uncover.
Life compels us to pursuit these
vectors. Funnily enough, we usually assign these ideals to the
deities (or even superheroes maybe?) we create, as if to have a
reminder of our goals as Life. Immortality, omniscience and
omnipotence. Never die, know it all and power to do it all. We could
somehow say life wants to be god, or at least it's own idea of god.
We could follow this 'meaning', but there's really nothing in it for
us at the end (not foreseeable at this point), when we die, our
universe dies. The only way to live this life is as a game, go for
the points (pleasure), try to maximise it for everyone (that's the
most efficient way).
Now trying to answer 'why'...would be
like a kitten trying to solve a differential equation.
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