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- From: avl0@cine88.cineca.it
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
- Subject: Re: The Meaning of (A) Life
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.095007.648@cine88.cineca.it>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 09:50:07 +0100
- Organization: CINECA, Italian Interuniversity comp. centre
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1992Nov15.230048.26012@u.washington.edu>,
- zzz@byron.u.washington.edu (Sample) writes:
- > Logic can only be produced from a
- > subjective view point. Scientists
- > claim to be objective when, in fact,
- > they're just putting themselves
- > "in others shoes".
- >
- > Good and bad, black and white, only
- > have meaning from =A= subjective view.
- >
- > The meaning of =A= life is it's "subjective view"
- >
- > To ask "what is the meaning of life?" is to
- > hope to be objective -- and no logic, no
- > information, can come from objectivity -- so
- > the question can't be answered.
-
- The question "what is the meaning of *MY* life" is the most important for
- anyone. The conclusion you reach ("can't be answered") does'nt mean
- that it can't be asked. "... we can't avoid dealing with this dangerous
- and unknown sea, better would be if a god come to us from the other side ..."
- (Plato + some faults in my memory)
-
- More over. In order to decide if there's or not a meaning, you need a
- criterion. A minimal criterion must concern effects of a life.
- From the "subjective view" before my life there's nothing, after it there's
- nothing too. Then no chenges so no meaning for *MY* life.
- This is clearly an absudity then the meaning of *MY* (*YOUR*) life it's not
- just a "subjective view".
- The Meaning that I subjectively need it's something of objective.
- And that question strictly concerns the Fundamental Goal of my life.
-
- Really, often scientists fall into a trap believing that math can describe
- all the realty, while just an aspect of it can be known by math.
- Nevertheless, you can't claim that every knowledge (good and bad, black and
- white) it's totally subjective. To know something implies that something does
- exist, everyone that knows it can share with the others its knowledge.
-
- Science, communication, and the life it self as human activities imply
- some objectivity and an objective Fundamental Goal.
-
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