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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.
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.
8) There may even be unknown threats to humanity from extraterrestrial organisms & phenomena of which we have no knowledge yet.
7) We have no competitors left on Earth, but there are still existential threats to humanity from our environment… and ourselves.
6) It’s a logical next step for us to create technology to accelerate the evolution of information collection and processing.
5) At this point humans have a good grasp on things we can sense organically and are focusing on understanding those that we cannot.
4) Over millions of years we’ve evolved organically to have better senses for collecting info and better brain power for processing it.
3) The ultimate long term survival strategy for any organism is to collect information to better understand its environment.
2) All that any organism does at a fundamental level is try to survive, both individually short term and collectively long term.
1) Waxing philosophical today, I pose to you that the meaning of life is the quest for knowledge. My reasoning is as follows: