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Imo, the meaning of life is to experience as much as possible. Simple as that.
That's the meaning you imbue life with; it's not inherent to its state.
The meaning of life is to live.
And to live is to experience. 😝
Not necessarily, living longer could be at odds with experiences like sky diving or bull running.
Are you saying that it's all about how long we live? If so, I disagree. I think it's about how -much- we live.
I don't think that, but saying 'the purpose of life is to live' implies more life is more better.
Then we agree, lol. "Living" more is experiencing more, right?
I didn't think living=experiencing.
How do you define "more life?"
I would define more living or truly living as living the Good Life. What that looks like is the fundamental question of philosophy, but I think a component we haven't touched on yet is helping others. I don't think we should help other people because it gives us a happy experience, but because it fulfills who we ought to be.
Philosophers may question what the good life is, but each individual decides for themselves. There is no universal right answer.
Seems like that's how you'd get murder, cannibalism, sadism, and things like that if you don't put limits on it somewhere.
On the other hand, if you go with reproduction as the main goal, then that gets you to eugenics from an uncomfortable number of very different paths.
Absolutely, that'd lead you to as many partners as possible while discouraging birth control. Plus tangentially it'd incentive trying to reduce the number of children other people have to increase your share of the gene pool. (Which I think is one of the paths you were getting at with eugenics)
No one can experience all things, and there are plenty more things to choose from than what you listed.
Totally unrelated, but what does this ink blot look like to you...? Just curious! 😜
How would you prioritize what to experience? By novelty? Or would you be happy to watch every movie ever made?
I mention those because it's a common trope in fiction for curiosity of experiences to lead down disturbing paths. Slanesh in 40k comes to mind.
It's all up to the individual. Whatever makes your motor run. But I'd universally suggest traveling to other countries to experience different cultures first hand. Other than that... Just interact with and experience as many new things as you've got the bandwidth for.
Nihilists hate this one weird trick!
Someone's channeling their inner Caligula......
I swear I was just checked last week and it came up clean!