What is Life?

WHAT IS LIFE? WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?

(10 ANSWERS I HAVE STUMBLED ACROSS)

1. “We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful response of nothingness” (Schopenhauer)

2. “Terrestrial life is a dense web of genetic inter-reactions” (Frank Ryan)

3. “Life is nothing else than the illusory filament that connects us to others and makes us believe that, for the time of an existence we hold to be essential, we are simply something rather than nothing” (Jean Paul Dubois, Une Vie Française)

4. “Life is a form of forward escape, of incessant swing towards the future, where all is done to avoid reaching thermodynamic equilibrium” (Antoine Dachin)

5. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like” (Lao Tzu)

6. “The purpose of life is to hydrogenate CO2” (Michael Russel)

7. “No man can tell another what the purpose is: each man must find it itself. The way a man becomes worthy of his suffering, the way he bears his suffering can be a genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom which cannot be taken away that makes life meaningful and purposeful. The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life” (Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning)

8. “The purpose of life is to accelerate the heat death of the universe by opposing the concentration of free energy”

9. “The meaning of life is complex and Darwinian. Evolution is a FACT” (GPT-2 predicting a Twitter response Richard Dawkins would make.)

10.“Love”