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May 16th, 2015

10) If we complete the quest for knowledge, we will be gods. Thus one could also claim that the meaning of life is to strive for godliness.

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9) While we don’t know WHY the universe exists, perhaps we exist to compute the answer to that question. Perhaps Douglas Adams was right.

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8) There may even be unknown threats to humanity from extraterrestrial organisms & phenomena of which we have no knowledge yet.

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7) We have no competitors left on Earth, but there are still existential threats to humanity from our environment… and ourselves.

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6) It’s a logical next step for us to create technology to accelerate the evolution of information collection and processing.

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5) At this point humans have a good grasp on things we can sense organically and are focusing on understanding those that we cannot.

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4) Over millions of years we’ve evolved organically to have better senses for collecting info and better brain power for processing it.

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3) The ultimate long term survival strategy for any organism is to collect information to better understand its environment.

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2) All that any organism does at a fundamental level is try to survive, both individually short term and collectively long term.

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1) Waxing philosophical today, I pose to you that the meaning of life is the quest for knowledge. My reasoning is as follows:

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