Whats the meaning of life?

Question: Whats the meaning of life?

Asked by anon-201771 to Sophia, Sarah, Meirin, George, Emily, Andy on 4 Mar 2019.
- Sarah O'Sullivan answered on 4 Mar 2019:
  
  The meaning of your life will be personal to you. I suppose if you regard life as species that reproduce, then the meaning of any species life to maintain the population of its species by breeding the next generation. But that’s a very reductive way of looking at ourselves. Life is what you make of it
- Sophia Pells answered on 4 Mar 2019:
  
  Such a hard question! I don’t think anyone knows the answer.
- George Fulton answered on 4 Mar 2019:
  
  In my eyes, there are many meanings to life. The meaning of life depends on the size of the world that you consider yourself to live in. For example, on a teeny scale, the meaning of life is hidden in quantum mechanics, on microscopic scales, biochemical reactions in our body win out. At scales about the size of a person, then people become important – be that family, friends or loved ones. On larger scales, such as the size of a county or country, then community and equality become important. On each larger scales, the environment, our planet and all the animals that live on it are the meaning of life. It gets a bit more depressing the further you go out though. As you make the earth smaller and smaller, the meaning of life becomes less and less significant. This is why it’s important for humans to travel into the cosmos in the future. The meaning of life on this grand scale requires intergalatic travel.
- Andy Buckley answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  Science doesn’t answer that, but I’m all in for having a good time, making good use of the amazing biological computer that evolution put inside your skull… and being nice to other humans, because that’s one of the other superpowers that we’ve been granted as the planet’s pre-eminent species. (Also because we’re social animals, so being nice feels good.)
- Emily Lewis answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  The great thing is that you get to decide for yourself! Asking others where they find meaning is a great place to start but really at the end of the day it’s something only you get to answer and it’s a lifelong process that probably will change answer several times.
  
  For me it’s supporting and being good to the people around me, doing work and research that I believe in and leaving the world a little better than I found it. Also taking pleasure in the little things, (like a good jam doughnut…).
- Meirin Oan Evans answered on 8 Mar 2019:
  
  I think the meaning of life is the number 42 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8&t=1m27s

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