Meaning of Life

Often times I begin to wonder, like most people on this planet, what the purpose of life is.  Some, sure of their answer, say that it is to reproduce.

I'd argue otherwise, using a few simple concepts:

Reversibility: Anything that we do, we could imagine it potentially occurring in reverse.  For example, drop a vase.  The vase shatters.  The shattering of the vase, the final resting position of the fragments, depend upon how the vase was held when it dropped.  If we were to reverse time, then the vase would re-construct itself.

Going backwards assumes that from time t+1 we can reach time t without any pre-disposed information.  The broken vase, again, could only reconstruct itself if we were also present in the mix of dropping, that the displaced air required something to take it's place...  The whole complex system allows this.

Determinism:  Since we can, if we were deities, extrapolate what would happen in the future and learn what happened in the past - there must be only one way forward and one way back in time (according to our world view).

More convincingly, determinism allows us to make choices and be able to accurately deduce the consequences.  It allows us to make sense of this world.

Order:  We like things that are organized.  Nature is very well organized.  We seem to self-organize for gain as we see fit.  We constantly further try to organize this world; be it by a system of roads (the visible) or dividing spaces...

Conclusion:  Briefly; I think that we are seeing the forest for the trees in terms of our purpose (or the meaning of life if you prefer).  If we reproduce, we are just another cog in the wheel that keeps on pushing evolution forward.  But given the overly predictable nature of our world; something is amiss.

Consider the solution to a dozen mathematical equations.  They can be solved by putting them into matrices, and solving.  There are even means of solving the equations indirectly to obtain an answer through multiple iterations.

I think we're in this system that is searching for a final, stable, phase.  That the ultimate meaning of life is the final stable solution of everything.  Once chaos ends.

And by the time we figure it out, it will be too late.  We will have already served our purpose.