Philosophy Now Forum

waechter418 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:03 pm It seems that since we are aware of ourselves we have been trying to find out who, why & where we are and that many of our religions, cosmologies, philosophies and sciences developed around this quest.

The answers differ widely, see for example neurologists, Buddha, Hegel, astrophysicists, Lao Tse or Christian fundamentalists - yet each insists to have found the right answer, which is understandable, after all, it is not easy to admit that the quest has been in vain and increases our confusion.

What went wrong?

What went wrong? Reality went wrong; the physical world just is, it does not have a meaning, and neither do you. There is nothing in the physical world that has meaning in and of itself, but only in relation to a conscious biological subject. Biology is the measure and meaning of all things. So, unless you have relations with other biologically conscious subjects, you have no meaning either. One could say that we are our own object in the world, and we are conscious, this is true, but it isn't enough to give us meaning. That is perhaps why many creatures are social creatures and why loneliness can be so negative. Where we are is impossible to say; everything is in movement, and where is a relation to something relatively static.