What Is Life?

Answer 1

its all abt happiness and sadness

Answer 2

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.


To be or not to be? "To be" is temporary and "not to be" is inevitable.....

Answer 3

The opposite of death.

In death, there may be life.

In life, there certainly is death.

Some people live their lives as if they were dead.

Some haven't been tapped on the shoulder yet to tell them they are dead.

Some that are dead have found new life by followers of what they stood for.

If all of those who have come and gone that meant something were to return again, what would life be like?

Life evolves, life changes, and yet, some have made a difference, and those "some" could be very sorely needed now.

Answer 4

Life, in its most generic definition, is a quality of matter. Matter that is 'alive' forms organisms of vast variety. Properties common to the known organisms found on Earth (plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea and bacteria) are that they are carbon-and-water-based, are cellular with complex organization, undergo metabolism, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt in succeeding generations.

An entity with the above properties is considered to be an organism. However, not every definition of life considers all of these properties to be essential. For example, the capacity for descent with modification is often taken as the only essential property of life. This definition notably includes viruses, which do not qualify under narrower definitions as they are acellular and do not metabolise. Broader definitions of life may also include theoretical non-carbon-based life and other alternative biology.

Although it cannot be pinpointed exactly, evidence suggests that life on Earth has existed for about 3.7 billion years [1]. Currently the entire Earth contains about 75 billion tons of biomass (life), which lives within various environments within the biosphere.

Answer 5

Life is a period of time soul gets to perform actions, from the time soul enters the body till the time soul leaves the same body.And this process carries on, where a soul enters a body at one point and then leaves the same and enters another and leaves again after certain time.This cycle of entering and leaving the bodies never ceases. It carries on one after the other, and there is no escape therefore you should not worry about anything, be happy and just enjoy every moment of it.

Answer 6

Ask a million people, you will probably get a million answers. We are not just one huge colony of ants. When we answer the question "what is life" we are really going to say what life means by our own personal interpretation, based on our experiences, and our own observations, our own beliefs and personal idealogy.
For myself, I just say it is a span of existence. William Shakespeare, who seemed to say everything better and more concisely than anybody else, may have summed it up rather neatly in the words of a character from one of his immortal plays....."The World's a Stage, and all the people on it merely players. The poor player struts and frets his hour upon the state, then falls forever silent".
Some of those "players" of course distinguish themselves above the rest, and their deeds are recorded in history, so that their personal contribution to "The Play" that we call Life, lives on after them and continues to resonate. But, for the overwhelming majority of us, we leave this world as we entered it.... unknown to all but the few who interracted directly with us, and when they are gone, and we are gone it is as if we never were.
But for all of this, my philosophy is "While I am here, ah'm gonna do it to it" LOLOL

Answer 7

A meaningless arrangement of events organized in such a way as to appear significant enough to cause us to think about them, but not so much as to make us act upon those thoughts while at the same time causing unanswerable question to be muttered under the guise of living a better life distracting well articulated people to spend the entire duration of it talking to themselves when in fact they should be out there figuring it out for themselves.

Answer 8

Life is a lesson for the Soul.Once the Soul graduated it moves to a Higher Plains

Answer 9

Life is self-replicating molecules.

Philosophy, like the perception of consciousness, is merely a phenomenon of errant electrical signals generated to operate the bodies of the more highly organized life-forms.

In the words of the great philosopher, Dogbert, ..."[we] are just biological pain collectors headed inexorably toward oblivion."

Answer 10

I think Shakespeare said it best in Macbeth:

Shakespeare (Macbeth V.v.):

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

check out these other perspectives:
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~sipper/life.html

good luck!~

Answer 11

It's an adventure, that has a lot of obsticules, pain, hurt, and happiness. Is there a prize at the end of life?