fundamental purpose portal 08-18-2014d1728
2015-02-16fundamental purpose portal 08-18-2014d1728
Put simply, the fundamental purpose is to maintain and increase order and complexity in the universe. Life is an example of order and complexity.
Authors and speakers who support this idea at some level
- Ray Kurzweil
- -"Singularity is Near"
- Alex Wissner-Gross
- -"A new equation for intelligence" TED talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue2ZEmTJ_Xo)
- Clement Vidal
- -"The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective"
- Voltaire in Candide
- Sam Harris
- -"The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values"
See also