4 Answers to the Purpose of Life

People sometimes ask what is the purpose of life? Why should we exist or chose to continue existing? To them I typically pose a counter question, what purpose would *you* like to have for life and can you live your life ‘as if’ that is the purpose of life?  See an example answer I provide here about the meaning/ purpose of life. Embed from Getty Images   However, this post is not about such philosophical questions.  Instead it builds on my previous posts about 4 major goals in life worth striving for. To recap the four major goals are 1) Happiness 2) Success 3) Morality 4) Meaning. Sometimes you come across a blog toward which you feel a natural affinity and know where the blogger is coming from. I recently came across the blog Qualia Computing and was fascinated by some advanced common understanding about psychological issues that the blog author shows. For example, in this post the author asserts that purpose of life is To Understand the Universe To be Happy, and Make Others Happy Also, later, the author asserts that any experience is valuable to the extent that it answers in affirmative to one or more of these questions: Does it feel good? (happy, loving, pleasant) Does it make you productive (in a good way)? Does it make you ethical? Taken together with the earlier formulation about the purpose of life, one can add a fourth question 4) does it lead to better understanding (of the world) ? Thus, imho, all actions should be guided by a...
Source: The Mouse Trap - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: happiness moral sense meaning Morality Source Type: podcasts