Why do people ask why about the universe?

Question

Purpose is a construct of intelligent agents. It means the role a component has apart of a system (of what ever size) to help achieve the goals within the system. The ultimate goal of life is to survive without any possiblity of death. Thus the purpose of life is to exist and so it serves itself. Why do people assume that the universe has a purpose, why can people not get there head around the idea of something simply existing as a product of purposeless mathematically based physical laws?

Answer 1

If the ultimate goal of life is to survive without any possiblility of death than nobody would be a soldier. But the rest of the stuff you say makes sense. The universe does not owe us answers to the question of "why" only "how."

Answer 2

I agree with you in a way... I dont think the universe always had a purpose. I believe the universe became self aware at some point after it came into existance but possibly not right away. The universe purpose to me is to exist without death inorder to do this I believe it needs to keep expanding and by doing this it creates more energys. I see the universe as a Single Mass Generator kinda like a huge Dark Energy Star if you know what that is... I believe it became self aware when the life forces inside it started to communicate with each other in ways that they could understand each other well.

We humans have a tendency to think that we are the masters of language when infact we are just babys when it comes to language. There are so many things we dont understand about it and how it works and so many words we dont understand fully. The smallest units of mass/energy in our universe probably work together to communicate words of love between all existing in the universe. I guess this makes me a Jedi believer or something lol...

The simplest life forms probably communicate with the simplest language possible and thus are understood by others better then the more complicated life forms. And I strongly believe that even stuff like elements are life forms. The reason I believe this is because they act perfectly random, have changing parts, they take energy and give energy out (food), and like us they die. This does not mean they get destroyed it just means they break down and then reform into more complicated forms. Take supernovas as an example they turn lighter elements into heavyer elements.

I know the supernova example doesnt seem really legit to explain why things are living because supernovas seem so perfectly normal in a system like ours even if life didnt exist. But honestly I kinda feel like supernovas making black holes or dark energy stars is probably where all the really intelligent life forms are.

End crazy person talking.

Answer 3

Mathematics is not purposeless, mathematics exists and needs no one alive to maintain its existence. Mathematics is the list of rules that tell reality how to function. Mathematics is the Mind of the divine Designer that set all realities in motion. There is a purpose in all designs, but in our reality we must search for the purpose, like the mouse after a piece of cheese on a stick. One must always take a step back and
reassess a conclusion because there are more detours and pitfalls in the thinking process than there are atoms in a glass of water.

Answer 4

People are told by their society that they must find a solution to the problem of 'meaning' for their life. It is not a naturally existing property in the human organism but a product of cultural conditioning.
I agree that life exists to serve itself but I can't find anything existing to support that it has any desire to never die.

Life and death are postive and negative poles of the same object. The object is the 'thing' that 'is' and the poles are only 'states' of this 'thing'. This 'thing' is living and is the 'energy' behind, below, above and around the experiencial substance we see through the window of 'knowledge' as this 'system' called 'universe'.

People ask because they are told to.

Answer 5

Is it any wonder? From infants we grow and develop , building things with our hands and then learing how to use the tools of math and science - man as the master of the tools. Many of us humans are raised to believe in a spiritual world where forces control the structure of the universe and man, a principle that humans don't disagree with because the concept of creation matches the skills that our minds are capable of.

To tell a person who believes in order, who believes that creation is both a human and Divine concept, that the universe may just be a big freaking random explosion in which haphazard random events led to the formation of the world and eventually us..... that morals, thought , our bodies and the world we live in is just a cosmic role of the dice....is it any wonder so many have a hard time accepting the idea?

As a person who is comfortable in his nihilistic skin, I look forward to raising my children under a new way of thinking about the world and ones self that doesnt involve creation as the origin of everything.

Answer 6

The universe is bigger than your comprehension, bigger than anybodies comprehension... therefore the reason it exists is bigger than all of us.

But we do know that everything that we can comprehend is caused by something. Everything we know is the result of cause and effect. Since everything we can comprehend follows that pattern, why wouldn't the universe be any different? It is reasonable to use that pattern to conclude that the universe exists because something caused it to exist.

To say that the universe exists with no cause would be to assume that it breaks the pattern of everything we observe in life, in science. To say the least that not a rational conclusion.

People ask "why" because it is a reasonable question.

Answer 7

Life has a purpose, and this purpose has been given by the Universe itself: that is to develop -from an imperfect state- to a perfect one the Universe itself. Universe is an organism too, like human body is to the cells.

Answer 8

People ask because they are afraid of the unknown. If their main objective is to survive then knowing is top priority.

The purpose of life is to define purpose, if you say it's purposeless then I'd say you don't have a purpose. It's a blank canvass, paint a freakin picture.

Answer 9

yeah, i used to suppose that. it could be because
1) it makes them feel smart to debate thus
2) they're curious.

Myself, I just get tired of people posting all these unaswerable, controversial questions, regarding the meaning of life, what came first, what is out there in the cosmos, etc, etc. I KNOW this is a philosophy page but I'm getting sick and tired of those questions!!

Answer 10

Anything to keep thinking. Thinking, over time, becomes an addiction for many. All else in life will begin to suffer so that thinking can be maintained.