<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></div><div class="gmail_extra">, Anders Sandberg wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> A few months ago I asked the list for opinions about the meaning of life for<br>
> an upcoming book chapter. The book, Transhumanism and Religion: Moving into<br>
> an Unknown Future, eds. Tracy Trothen and Calvin Mercer, Praeger 2014.<br>
> <a href="http://abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=2147553420" target="_blank">http://abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=2147553420</a> , is still a few months away.<br>
> However, I thought the list might like to see a preprint of the chapter:<br>
> <a href="http://www.aleph.se/papers/Meaning%20of%20life.pdf" target="_blank"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline"></div>http://www.aleph.se/papers/Meaning%20of%20life.pdf</a><br>
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Possibly it is only in fairly recent times that there<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline"> </div>are precious few minutes left for meaning search.<br>
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BillK<br></font></span></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline">The meaning of your life is what you do with it. "She was a great cook."
"He loved fantasy baseball." "Good teacher, not great, cared more than
most." "Killed his entire family including pets." "Loved to poke fun
at politicians." "Made a lot of money and was a fool about women."
These are all meanings. <br><br>So no matter what you may think is the meaning of your life, that is, what you 'meant' to do, life, which is often full of random events that push you around like big ocean waves, is what you do with it. And often misinterpreted by others! There is a different opinion to what your life is about for every person who knows you.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline">As to the meaning life (as in Anders pdf) as defined for the entire race, I offer only this: we should aim at being better people, intellectually, physically, emotionally, and morally. "Better" will have to be defined democratically, but as a start: far less violent again one's own species, far less motivated by sex, free of obsessions with certain foods, etc. Morally, we could build in more empathy so the Golden Rule could actually be practiced fully by people.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline">A key value to give life its meaning: transhumanism's goal of improving humanity. To spend one's life working towards that goal gives both humanity and individuals a meaning they can believe in permanently. <br>
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