College Admissions : Logic and the Meaning of Life In approaching the meaning of life we have to examine the nature of meaning itself. Meaning is by definition the point, or the intended goal. Consider the point of humans and the universe as seen from monotheistic religion. If life and the universe is some sort of toy or form of entertainment for some prime mover, his point, his own entertainment, would then be the meaning of humans and the universe. Consider the goals of the deities of various cultures. Some strive for a balance between the forces of 'good' and 'evil'. This balance seems to simply be a choice of the deity, the way he thinks it ought to be. The concept of a prime mover as a source of the meaning of life is flawed, because in talking about an actual point to absolutely everything, we are simply considering the goals of a being more powerful than ourselves who has chosen one of many possible goals that humans can conceive of. This is to say that, if a god like this exists, his goal for life and the universe is not necessarily valid as a meaning of life, the universe, and himself. For instance, the Bible claims that the Christian deity created the universe and placed humans in it that they might be in awe of his power. If this is so, why is worship the correct response? The meaning of the universe as created by God is the entertainment of God, but what is the meaning of the larger system containing God and his creations? We could conceive of an even 'primer' mover, but that simply takes us all the way back into the wall of infinite regression. When I first read the Bible, it struck me as neutral on the idea of worship. The Bible flat out tells you that God created humans so that they would be in awe of him, which amounts to saying God created us to inflate his ego. We are to God as our pets are to ourselves, sources of unconditional love. In the book of Job, God essentially makes a gentleman's bet with Satan that Job's worship is genuine and not inspired by God's kindness. In other words, you throw a rock at my dog and I'll swing my arm so it looks I threw it, and we'll see if he still comes when I call him. In the end, Job is not simply the dog, because he questions God's throwing of the rock. God's response is consistent with his goal of inspiring awe. Even though the idea of a bet with Satan is well within Job's grasp, God claims that his purpose was inconceivable to Job. God is simply fortifying the concept that is critical to the continuance of human worship: that with inconceivable power comes incredible intelligence and unknowable purpose. The narrator of the Bible, which is supposedly God himself, speaking through humans, never directly says that he should be worshipped. This is merely the interpretation of humans, who may be created in God's image with one crucial difference, the need to worship. Perhaps then, God is after the meaning of life. Imagine a being so powerful as to be able to create and mould the universe, who, like Roman and Greek gods, is only marginally more intelligent than his creations. Perhaps God, in all his ridiculous power, cannot change himself. In order to find the meaning of his own existence he creates the human race so that we might evolve to an intelligence greater than his own, in much the same way that a computer programmer wishes to create true AI, an intelligence greater than human, which might 'evolve' within a computer. We are given the title of pet and the instinct of worship while the creator waits for a companion in the search for meaning. Of course this is wrong, or I would have been struck by a lightning bolt during that last sentence and brought to God's side. Or perhaps God is not aware of his own success yet, or perhaps I am not the first to uncover God's purpose, and my predecessor is debating meaning with God as we speak. Or perhaps I am intended to continue to search from the perspective that has proved so useful. In any case, this may amount to Christianity being a giant misunderstanding. At the very least, it means I can walk up to a Christian, tell him I believe in God and everything in the Bible, and ask him what the candles and the cathedrals are for. Back again to the one and only point: if a meaning exists it is not necessarily the purpose of our creation or existence. It has a larger scope, and can refer to the meaning of the existence of the being or force creating us, if such a force exists. So if we now define ourselves as being after the meaning of all things, and not necessarily after the purpose of our creation, we must decide what exactly could be the 'meaning of life'. Back again to the word 'meaning'. To discuss the idea of a meaning, purpose, goal or intent is to suggest the existence of a larger stage to whatever we speak of. In other words, for there to be a goal to something, there must be a creator, for the goal must have been conceived by some kind of entity. Since we now see that a creating entity's goals apply as a meaning only its creation, we can either here stop and accept our role in the universe ( this all assuming there is a creator and we know his intent ), or attempt to conceive of a meaning of the creator's existence. And so we loop back to the word meaning again. To conceive of a meaning to the creator's existence is to imply a creator for the creator, and to conceive of a creator for the creator is to ask what this secondary creator's meaning is, and to examine his creator in turn. Somewhere along this chain, we are forced to accept that the universe is meaningless as far as the actual definition of the word 'meaning' goes. So the fault is within the phrase 'the meaning of life'. Really when most people use this phrase they do not mean the dictionary definition of the word meaning, and they do not specifically refer to life as we know it. The word life can be easily replaced by the word 'existence' to at least come closer to the connotations that have evolved around this phrase as a whole, but the word meaning has no obvious substitute. What is really meant by this phrase it seems to me is some kind of cosmic order. A way, perhaps, that things ought to be, a path that is favored by the universe? Examine some of the theories people have for existence that do not involve deities or creators. Examine the concept of karma, and imagine a universe where every being who was aware had a karma. To add the workings of karma to the universe really is not to give any meaning or order to our existence. Although karma is often perceived as being a part of 'good', a retribution and reward system for the naughty and nice, karma at its core concept is completely neutral. Karma makes no claim as to whether good or evil is the right path, but simply makes sure that if you do unto others, that will be done unto you. Many people have clouded karma with benevolence in the same way we cloud happiness with 'goodness'. Karma will return to you what you have done, and whether this makes you happy or tortured is irrelevant, karma is only a law of the universe just like a physical law, and if gravity makes you happy, that is not because there is a core of benevolence to it. So adding the idea of karma to the universe does not establish an order, or even a right and wrong, but simply adds another set of laws to the universe to match the sets of physical laws studied by chemistry and physics. As each possibility for a meaning drops away we are left asking what it is we want, and what it is that will qualify as a meaning for existence. What we want, it seems clear, is a set of 'real' values, and a path to follow that is 'right'. Is there necessarily going to be such a path? Does there need to be a meaning of life? Can the universe be completely neutral, in fact just be? And if the universe simply exists and nothing more, what should we be doing? Clearly that situation invalidates all normal goals. What good can the helping of others or the following of a moral code be in the face of a neutral universe. What good, in fact, is one's own happiness, what good is anything? And so, what is next, suicide? This is as pointless as any other endeavor, and so is getting depressed. What should we be doing? If we create a point for our lives, give ourselves a meaning and follow its course, have we no more wasted our lives than has the next man, since all is valueless? From the perspective of a being in this world, the universe seems a moot point. Having found ourselves in a universe with no creator and no goal, we have a reflex to seek power and happiness. This really is a reflex, and is in fact an instinct. We search for happiness because we are programmed to, because those who have good survival traits have a happy and successful life culminating in reproduction. Do we then need to seek an even more impartial state than that which can be reached by careful thinking? The doubting of the observer. If we consider our own awareness to be fundamentally true, we still have to doubt our style of thinking. We cannot prove the viability of logic, since this is using logic to back up logic. The best way to go about doubting our own thinking, it would seem, is to examine that structure in the brain which deals with logic ( if it is not the entire brain, and if logic is not a part of our awareness itself, and thus separate from the brain ). Since logic seems to allow us to understand the universe, this section of the brain might have some fundamental structure to it that mimics the order and chaos of the universe: this structure might be the embodiment of truth itself. If not, then the structure which allows us to think must mimic the universe in full, and be in fact a simulation of all the laws of the universe. If this is so, logic is an illusion, and conclusions are reached by experimentation and simulation. One guess at the nature of logic. Evolution has created all things through sheer probability. Every gene that creates a human happened to happen, and this is not amazing, but in fact has a certain inevitability to it. Given time, probability can do almost anything. Perhaps in fact, logic itself is probability. The incredible neuron network simply a random-impulse generator? Screened perhaps by some sort of memory device that remembers what ideas led to what happiness, and so slowly works out the 'logical' ideas from the rest? This theory in no way explains awareness or even necessarily gives a working model for the nature of logic and the mind, but it does at least fit evolution's 'style', and a few other things... Like why people can become so stagnant. If you don't beat at your head to clear the clog against ideas that haven't led to happiness, you end up having the same ideas over and over. Or LSD. A drug that lifts the viel for a moment so that you can have ideas you otherwise wouldn't have. If this is so, and hallucinations occur with the use of this drug, are we to understand that people, really, literally, only see what they want to see? In any case, it would explain perfectly why people's thinking meshes with the universe so well, and even explain why we have so much trouble thinking about things that we have never actually encountered, like infinity. Any other theory of logic will either place it in the awareness ( leading to several other conjectures ) or claim that there is some kind of logic circuit in the brain that emulates the universe. If this second theory is true, then this structure in the brain is truth itself, defined, the pattern of the universe, and we need search no further than ourselves.
Many people agree that Sony’s Playstation 4 is better than Microsoft’s Xbox One and vice versa. I have been gaming since I was seven years old and still am today. The first gaming console I ever had was the original Xbox. Throughout the years though, technology has improved vastly. The last generation of game consoles gave the industry a much needed boost and gave the consumer another commodity. With the eighth generation of consoles just arriving, a lot of people are wondering which console to buy. There is, however, more than just the choice of games. There’s differences in processors, graphics cards, hard drives, design, operating systems, ports, versatility, stability, controllers, and, of course, the games.
"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive...." Joseph Campbell made this comment on the search for meaning common to every man's life. His statement implies that what we seem bent on finding is that higher spark for which we would all be willing to live or die; we look for some key equation through which we might tie all of the experiences of our life and feel the satisfaction of action toward a goal, rather than the emptiness which sometimes consumes the activities of our existence. He states, however, that we will never find some great pure meaning behind everything, because there is none. What there is to be found, however, is the life itself. We seek to find meaning so that emptiness will not pervade our every thought, our every deed, with the coldness of reality as the unemotional eye chooses to see it. Without color, without joy, without future, reality untouched by hope is an icy thing to view; we have no desire to see it that way. We forget, however, that the higher meaning might be found in existence itself. The joy of life and the experience of living are what make up true meaning, as the swirl of atoms guided by chaotic chance in which we find our existence has no meaning outside itself.
Sony’s knows that it’s most powerful weapon is its word of mouth. Everyone knows the quality Sony produced for the PS1 and nobody hesitate to buy the PS2. And company was well aware of that. By the time Sony released the PS2 the company didn’t have any competition.
The meaning of life is to find the meaning of life. Is it not? We all go through each day trying to figure out which road out the infinite amount of paths will lead us in a better direction where happiness is prominent and society is flawless. However, not every single human being is going to fit on that narrow, one-lane highway to success. Bad choices, accidents, fate, family matters, society, temptation, anger, rage, addiction, and loss of hope can all be deciding factors in opting to choose that wrong path to self-destruction. The adverse thing is, once you've traveled so far down the road, you get so discouraged that you feel like you can never turn back or make up for the "lost time."
3. Microsoft's reputation has suffered considerably over the last few years as a result of the litigation surrounding its Windows monopoly. The company hopes Xbox 360 will combat the impression it is not innovative and well change the public's view of the company (http://www.xb360info.com).
Everyone has pet peeves and things they cannot stand about other people or just the world around them. One thing that makes me angry is people who snore. Whether it be a friend at a sleepover, or a stranger on a bus, snoring is what really gets on my nerves. I know that they can’t help it, but, even so, I can’t tolerate it!
What is the meaning of life? Is a question far beyond anyone can answer. But everyday people try to breakdown the meaning of it in their everyday life. This question that people try to answer ranges from religion to philosophy. Everyday there is new theories propose to something simple, to something out of this world. This question has been asked so many times through music, literature, fiction, poetry and art. It doesn’t matter what time period and style the people, also known as artists and philosophers, are from as long as they can find the basic meaning of this question they will do and believe anything.
Sony has all the tools and skills to be an inventive company once again. Sony has lost some connection with customers and the power of the Sony name. The loss of brand name power for Sony is important in any opportunity they seek. Upgrading the potential of the PlayStation Network is a great move to recapture market control. While Sony may be moving to improve PlayStation networking capabilities, they must use a combination of marketing and innovation to reach the general public more efficiently.
Snoring is the vibration of respiratory structures and the resulting sound due to obstructed air movement during breathing while sleeping. Snoring is a serious problem of both genders but mostly overweight males are at risk and it can become more serious with age. It can heavily affect your own sleep as well as your partner’s sleep. In fact, snoring often disrupts the sleep of family members and partners more than it affects the snorer.
After, one semester trying to understand what is logic about and how it works, finally, I understood that Logic is always present in our life.
There are many questions that face human existence. Questions that we ask others and ourselves, while we try to find meaning. When there seems to be no clear or true answer then this puzzles humanity as we have a longing to understand and a longing for clarity. There are tons of philosophical questions one can think of or ask but they all seem to boil down to one single question. Does life have meaning? This question has been pondered over since human existence. After searching this world for an answer and not finding a concrete reply, this can be a frustrating experience. How can we continue to survive and live but not know what our actual place is within this world? When no answer is provided this is an act of absurdity as we do not understand but some how continue to be. This world and all that is finite does not provide an answer to our longing need to understand our position within the world. Human existence is absurd because human existence seeks an answer to our meaning within life and the world is quiet not providing us with a concrete answer.
In my search to find the meaning of life, all I have ever found is an incomplete conclusion. I have found that all of nothing means something and that everything happens for a very distinct reason. You may be too blind or too stubborn to realize it at first, but the reasoning can always be found just under the surface. When I fell in love with Sean, he was the only thing that mattered to me. Loving him was the only thing in my life that ever made any sense; I had developed a beautiful subconscious dependence to him. Not realizing it at the time, falling in love with him would change my life forever in more ways than I could have ever foreseen.
There is no true definite meaning to life. It’s just living. Consider life like your favorite kind of donut. If someone offers you the donut, you’re not going to turn it down, even if you know it’ll be gone in a few bites. You eat it, and you don’t really start to consider the flavor until you have only a few bites left, and you savor those last few bites and then it’s gone. That’s what life is like. You don’t realize how little time you had until it’s almost over and then you enjoy life as much as you can before you
really is a meaning to life as we know it, or if everything that happens does so emptily
The meaning of life is a very confusing question but to be able to answer it you must realize that it differs for everyone. There is never only one real answer. Everyday it can change for each individual. Everyone has their own way of living; they have their own thoughts and beliefs so therefore each persons answer to the meaning of life will be their own private version.