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The meaning of life (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What's the meaning of life?

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[–] tinwhiskers@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The question doesn't even make sense. You have to redefine it to "purpose" or some other word to even get started. The only literal interpretation is "what does 'life' mean?", which is just something like "a metabolic system capable of Darwinian evolution".