Please tell me about your outlook on life and values. Facing various phenomena in the current society, I am a little confused. Please give me some inspiration!

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Why do people live?

To put it simply: "Enhance the sustainable development of species" (Note: This is the essential meaning at the biological level, not the "ultimate" meaning, you will know after reading the following).

Everything in the universe exists because of its reasonable existence in the corresponding time and space. Its existence is a concrete manifestation of the ultimate rules of the universe. The ultimate rules are difficult for us to know yet (we are forever searching), and we don’t need to know them to live.

The definition of the meaning of life at the cosmic level can only be achieved after the ultimate laws of the universe are cracked and we can thoroughly interpret all aspects of our lives as manifestations of the laws of material movement (and laws are only laws, there is no good or evil. The emotional tone of nobility is a plain factual statement, not an emotional imperative. The driving force of life must be an imperative, with the emotion of wanting to take some action to live.)

For now. The theoretical depth of The entropy of living things increases very quickly externally, causing great disorder, but for itself, it can maintain an orderly metabolism. This has accelerated the entropy increase on the earth's surface, and now the development of civilization is exponential. speeded up this process. These can be seen as some of the laws and trends of the universe reflected in our existence and development.

Fortunately, we are intelligent creatures. Before thinking about why we live, first think about why we survive? From a biological perspective, the most important thing is the will to live, and the ability to survive enough. Both of these are actually evolved natures. Because the population that is not strong enough to survive or has not strong enough ability to survive has long been eliminated. Only those who want to survive and can survive will continue to reproduce.

This is the anthropic principle, just like why the parameters of our universe and planet are so special, because only this kind of universe and planet can produce us and be thought about by us.

The main driving force that makes us want to survive It is the nerve center for various natural needs deep in the brain, mainly the middle-level mammalian emotional center and the deep-level instinctive center of reptiles. They all make judgments without relying on reason to a certain extent. The rational cerebral cortex is built on their structure. By extension, they perform more refined auxiliary processing and regulation of the demand instructions they give. These centers emit various hormones that stimulate demand, just like the computer's hardware operations (such as BIOS startup settings, or the three laws of robots), and do not shut down. Restarting cannot change and supports our operation. For example: love, freedom, appetite, security, possessiveness, sexual desire, independence, the need for exercise, self-esteem and vanity, group attachment, fear of death, illness and injury, curiosity heart, and even the desire to think... These natures have evolved to benefit the survival of the species and are not completely controlled by reason. Reason guides the needs of nature, just like the government does to the people. The government can regulate the people, but it must also serve The people, otherwise the people may overthrow the government.

Of course, after we developed rationality, we became accustomed to and trusted the guidance of rationality. We also hope that the sophisticated software of higher rational nerves can solve this fundamental problem. Trying to process and regulate the calculations of the rough hardware of the lower nature nerves, and express the meaning of survival more rationally, is not only to circle the circle of life around the needs of the nature, but also to have a rational macro-self-understanding of this circle process. and optimize regulation.

But you must know that usually the reasons that motivate us are relative. They are relative goals set by others in society and ourselves in order to allow us to live in an organized way and achieve a goal. It is for another goal, and another is for the next one, and then the circular argument continues, without any final result. For example: (original words of a child in a mountainous area) shepherding sheep in order to grow up and marrying a wife, marrying a wife in order to have children, and giving birth to children. In order to continue to herd sheep.

In fact, the enhancement of the sustainable development of species is the ultimate result of survival of the fittest and the fundamental trend of biological evolution. The nature of living things is shaped by evolution, so if we use rationality To speak for the purpose of survival that our nature wants to achieve, "enhancing the sustainable development of species" is the most appropriate.

Sustainability means continuation in time, and development means continuation in space. Expansion, taken together, makes the existence of species in a larger time and space reasonable.

These two concepts are the unity of opposites. Conservatives only pursue maintenance, and radicals pursue only development. In a certain They are in opposition at one stage, but they are unified in the whole process. Similarly, individuals and populations also have this relationship of unity of opposites.

Just like a poor peasant family, eating is for maintenance, and going to school is for development. Eating is for maintenance. There are economic contradictions with going to school at the same period, and they promote each other in the whole process: only by having enough food can you continue to go to school, and only by going to school can you have a better food and life in the future.

So the above This circular argument can be simplified to: enhancing the sustainability and development of individuals and populations. This is equivalent to shrinking the circle into a knot. Whether you make a small circle or a large circle, this is the center of the circle. .

That is: conservative maintenance is for further development, and radical development is for further maintenance. Individuals (parts) maintain amp; development is for the group (whole), and the group (whole) maintains amp ; Development is for each individual (part). This is the simplest circular argument, referred to as "enhancing the sustainable development of the species". Just like the yin and yang fish in the Book of Changes, conservative yin and radical yang promote each other Circular operation.

Note that this is the most essential meaning at the biological level, but not at the material level of the universe.

If we further ask what the significance of the maintenance and development of this species is, It is no longer necessary (or it can be explained as the form of entropy increase, but that is too abstract and not convenient for analysis and guidance). As long as we analyze ourselves as biological organisms, this meaning is ultimate enough. When we are not biological organisms (referring to Being buried does not refer to the mechanization of human beings. If a machine can also achieve something similar to life,

If the internal self-replicating orderly metabolic structure of an object can also be regarded as a living thing, if this kind of machine has the ability of individual self-replication, it can be regarded as a species), and it will no longer be able to perceive any meaning. This meaning is for life and civilization. It is macroscopic, universal, clear and practical in terms of the three levels of life. In fact, even if we understand the ultimate rules of the universe and can define our meaning from the material level, if we ask again what the meaning of the universe and the existence of matter is, we have to find a higher level of existence than the known universe and matter to define it. Our meaning (before that existence is observed, it can also be considered that the meaning at the cosmic level is the current ultimate), so when it is neither possible nor necessary, thinking does not need to expand so far. This expansion is unlimited. , and we have to go step by step. And because the expansion of meaning is infinite, the "absolute ultimate meaning" does not exist. It can only be said to be the most essential and ultimate within a certain range.

One piece The existence of something in a period of time and space is a fact that is imposed on people by the rules it obeys, regardless of whether people give it the meaning of existence or occurrence. We are creatures, civilizations and human beings, and most of us will live until we have to die. This is such an imposed fact. Giving meaning is just to make it easier for reason to accept and utilize this fact. In other words, since there is no absolute meaning, and Reason must also serve the needs of nature to survive, so it must find various relative reasons to guide itself to survive to adapt to this fact. Those who cannot do this will be eliminated due to lack of motivation in life.

The essence of the meaning of something comes from the definition of the thing. Whatever it is, it should have certain attributes, and it will tend to exert this attribute. This is the meaning. And because what it is is different with different levels and scopes, the corresponding meanings are also different with different levels and scopes. If it is matter, it will exhibit the properties of matter (increase in entropy); if it is a living thing, it will exhibit the properties of biology (evolution); if it is civilization, it will exhibit the properties of civilization (thinking); if it is a partner, child, parent, or friend, it will exhibit the properties of a partner, The nature of children, parents, friends; if it is a businessman, scientist, a person from a certain country, a passenger, or a man, use the nature of a businessman, scientist, a person from a certain country, a passenger, or a man; this role can be defined multiple times, so you can find the meaning for yourself Yes, but there are different levels. The lower the level, the smaller the scope of application and the stronger the relativity. For example, you are always material, you are a living thing before you die, you are a professional before you retire, and you are a guest when you go to someone else's house; the relativity of meaning increases in sequence. Outside a certain range, you do not have the nature of a certain thing, that is, it is not a certain thing, and it does not have the corresponding meaning.

If someone (or human being) is unable or unwilling to survive and develop, he (or human being) dies (or becomes extinct). To the universe, this is just the cycle of its original creatures and civilizations. The progressive entropy increase form cannot be maintained and is converted into a physical one-time random entropy increase form. From a biological level, it can also be described as this person (or human beings) being eliminated in evolution because of his own instability defect in survival. There will be another person (or species) to replace him (or human beings) to continue the process of biology and civilization. But for the brain, it is the end of thinking. For the people (or) around them, it means losing a complex factor that can affect their lives (positively or negatively, more or less).

As for how to resolve contradictions in all aspects of life Resolving the contradiction of "enhancing the sustainable development of species", which is a unity of opposites, must rely on the gradual maturity of personal life cognitive experience and perception.

The following introduces a method of analyzing meaning and judging value:

Since: the essence of the meaning of a thing comes from the definition of the thing. Whatever it is, it should have certain attributes, and it will tend to exert this attribute. This is the meaning. And because what it is is different with different levels and scopes, the corresponding meanings are also different with different levels and scopes.

Value is a quantified expression of meaning.

Then, definition: a thing's ability to exert certain attributes within a certain range is called "the attribute process of the thing", such as "the flight process of an airplane", "I The survival process "the rise and fall process of the stock market" and the "human war process"

The process constitutes a multi-dimensional function. The independent variable is the state of other aspects of the thing, the dependent variable is the attribute state, and the definition domain It is the level range with this attribute. For example, "the rise and fall process of the stock market", the rise and fall of the stock market is the dependent variable, the various factors that affect the stock market are the independent variables, and the legal trading range and validity period of the stock are the definition domain. "The flight process of the aircraft", the flying altitude is the dependent variable, various aspects of the aircraft such as flight time, range, fuel volume, weather are independent variables, the period during which the aircraft can take off without being destroyed, route, fuel volume, weather etc. is the domain of definition.

Value judgment (or meaning analysis) is relative to a given process. The quantitative impact of each independent variable factor on the corresponding variable is the value of these factors in this process. For example, food, genetics, environment, luck, etc. in "my survival process" have a great impact on the corresponding variable "my life span", so their value in this process is also great. Mao Zedong's value to "China's liberation process" is very great.

Of course, sometimes constructing such a multi-dimensional function for a process is very abstract and not easy to think of intuitively.

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