Poll: Is life important?

[SinisterGehe]

Now I am not talking about single life example life of a child or a bunny rabbit, a dog or anything like that. I am talking about the essence of live, that what makes living things alive, is it Important?
Do not think about this as a simple question like "Is the life of humans important?" or "Is the life of animals important?".
Think it as is life as we know it important, is the fact that small singular cell is alive important, is the fact that these cells are able to construct magnificent beings like humans, elks, dogs and cats and so on, is the fact that a living dead virus exist important?
I am talking about is the fact that anything living exist important. Anything that has a DNA or even bits of RNA, anything that generates proteins or any component that the science has deemed mandatory for life.

Is the fact that this planet of ours has anything that we think is "alive" important. Since the fact that if there wouldn't be anything, if we wouldn't be here, the universe would still function as it does, if all living things would disappear the universe wouldn't even notice if we would disappear, or if our solar system would just disappear, it wouldn't matter in the grand scale of things.

So is life important in the grand scale of universe.

 

[Slowpool]

Is that the new Twitter? Never heard of it.

EDIT: Yes, of course life is important. Without perception, the universe is pointless. You can't have meaning without something that can find it.

 

[Fitzcaraldo]

Definitely. Without something to populate and appreciate it, the universe is just a great, big, untidy waste of space.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I am much too tired and tipsy to be thinking bout this deep stuff man.

Life is important because without it, well, we wouldn't be here to discuss it would we?

Agggrh, bedtime.

 

[Gigano]

It certainly should be to the living.

"Importance" is a point of view.

 

[Slowpool]

This is, of course, assuming that awareness and perception can only exist with the assistance of what we call "organic life". Pretty big assumption.

 

[rabidmidget]

That depends entirely on perspective and what you would value as "important" in terms of the universe.

 

[Jordi]

Important for what or for whom? You seem to say "important for the universe", but what are the goals of the universe? I'm thinking that since the universe isn't a sentient being it has none. It wouldn't even "care" if it wasn't there at all (just like we won't care if we're dead incidentally). I say that in the grand scheme of things nothing matters. We feel sad if we hear that the world is going to perish (due to a meteor or something), but really, who cares? Answer: nobody because we would all be dead.

 

[Iron Mal]

Now I want you to sit there and think about that question long and hard.

Now I don't want you to stop thinking until you realise that without life you wouldn't be able to ask such questions (foolish though they are) and neither would you be able to sit and reflect upon the significance of life in the universe.

In other words, of course life is important. If it weren't then we wouldn't be having this discussion because, frankly, we wouldn't be alive. As impressive as the vast array of inanimate objects and substances throughout the universe are, none of them even come close to matching the achievements that mankind has.

Not even Mother Nature herself can match the achievements that we as humans have accomplished (not to mention that without no life there would be no nature).

In effect, we are Gods in the flesh. We can destroy worlds, create life, build wonders, perform acts and feats that can only be described as miraculous and your average man can kill the populations of entire cities with his right hand and moisturiser.

If there was no life then there'd just be still silence and nothingness.

Not even time would exist, after all, what would be there to percieve it's passing?

 

[shadow_Fox81]

why is both not an option

 

[Anarchemitis]

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."
-C.S. Lewis

 

[Skoldpadda]

There is no point to life, life is the whole point.

Also, I need a drink.

 

[SinisterGehe]

What I am wondering is the fact would universe miss out on something if there would be no life anywhere. What I have studied and observed is that universe in all its being and existence is beautiful logical and functioning machine that functions as it should and if nit doesn't it replaces it's old function with a new one.

This is just a question that doesn't really serve any purpose it is here to be wondered. I myself often wonder if our sun would destroy everything living on our solar system would it "matter" to the universe. Or are we the living the universes legacy, that what it was supposed to create, something that it tried to create and succeed, making something amazing and complex by sheer power of mass and energy. I am not wondering here that should I kill out everything living I wonder here does it serve a meaning, a purpose or is it's task only to exist.

I study philosophy, this is what I do every day, sit and think, write it down, explain it to my teacher and to my fellow student and achieve greater understanding of something.

reCAPTCHA "orkestlU Prosper." Hmm...

 

[tzimize]

What I am wondering is the fact would universe miss out on something if there would be no life anywhere. What I have studied and observed is that universe in all its being and existence is beautiful logical and functioning machine that functions as it should and if nit doesn't it replaces it's old function with a new one.

This is just a question that doesn't really serve any purpose it is here to be wondered. I myself often wonder if our sun would destroy everything living on our solar system would it "matter" to the universe. Or are we the living the universes legacy, that what it was supposed to create, something that it tried to create and succeed, making something amazing and complex by sheer power of mass and energy. I am not wondering here that should I kill out everything living I wonder here does it serve a meaning, a purpose or is it's task only to exist.

I study philosophy, this is what I do every day, sit and think, write it down, explain it to my teacher and to my fellow student and achieve greater understanding of something.

reCAPTCHA "orkestlU Prosper." Hmm...

Your original question has been answered, and answered well. Life is the most important thing there is, and at the same time it doesnt matter at all. Depends on your point of view, and your definition of important.

There is no one correct answer to this, or any other question in philosophy for that matter. Philosophy is not mathematics and thus it is not really possible to achieve a greater understanding of anything in philosophy. Wonder is the main ingredient in philosophy, conclusion is not.

Whenever you feel you have achieved a greater understanding, what has really happened is that your opinion has changed. Philosophy explores the whys, science the hows. There are no definate answers to the whys so greater understanding cannot really be achieved.

Imo.

 

[Soviet Steve]

It can be completely irrelevant or a complete game-changer. It depends on how advanced a civilization develops. Thus far humanity and life on Earth is irrelevant in the universe however.

 

[Jakub324]

If life vanished from the universe, it (the universe) wouldn't give a fuck, so no, it isn't.

 

[Mechanical Cat Fish]

Without life, nothing is important. Importance itself is a human construct and without any consciousness the universe is just a machine that will keep running pointlessly until the end of time. At least living beings can be content for a little while.

 

[Darth IB]

Only God(s) (if any) can truly know the answer to that question.

 

[SinisterGehe]

What I am wondering is the fact would universe miss out on something if there would be no life anywhere. What I have studied and observed is that universe in all its being and existence is beautiful logical and functioning machine that functions as it should and if nit doesn't it replaces it's old function with a new one.

This is just a question that doesn't really serve any purpose it is here to be wondered. I myself often wonder if our sun would destroy everything living on our solar system would it "matter" to the universe. Or are we the living the universes legacy, that what it was supposed to create, something that it tried to create and succeed, making something amazing and complex by sheer power of mass and energy. I am not wondering here that should I kill out everything living I wonder here does it serve a meaning, a purpose or is it's task only to exist.

I study philosophy, this is what I do every day, sit and think, write it down, explain it to my teacher and to my fellow student and achieve greater understanding of something.

reCAPTCHA "orkestlU Prosper." Hmm...

Your original question has been answered, and answered well. Life is the most important thing there is, and at the same time it doesnt matter at all. Depends on your point of view, and your definition of important.

There is no one correct answer to this, or any other question in philosophy for that matter. Philosophy is not mathematics and thus it is not really possible to achieve a greater understanding of anything in philosophy. Wonder is the main ingredient in philosophy, conclusion is not.

Whenever you feel you have achieved a greater understanding, what has really happened is that your opinion has changed. Philosophy explores the whys, science the hows. There are no definate answers to the whys so greater understanding cannot really be achieved.

Imo.

This is how I see it.
Think your understanding as a bubble, in right between that bubble there is line that is absolute, it divides real world and idea word and in between there is something. Now how I see my understanding has expanded in a way that the bubble has stretched to one direction and grown larger (It no longer looks like a bubble but still think like it would be, a ball of knowledge that grows) I have gained knowledge of something, may it be the real world, idea world or in between. Everyone's bubble is different shaped.

Philosophy has mathematics in it. Philosophy (or philosopher to be exact) means love of wisdom. Philosophy in itself is not an absolute that, it contains different forms of wisdom, logic being one of them and logic is mathematics and mathematics is logic - our understanding what the "math" as a context holds in are absolute values and figures that can be used to describe things.
But I enjoy the way Ludwig Wittgenstein put it "There are no philosophical problems, only problems of language".

And how can my opinion change if I really have no opinion, In the beginning I made a statement of how I see things, it itself is not an opinion. I can state "I like blue cheese", it is a statement, it is real and perfect in it's way, but it is not an opinion just like; "I like the taste of black hole", I see that I like the taste of black hole's, but I can not say what it tastes like, I can not make opinion about it. If you say "black holes taste awful" and I agree with you, has my opinion change or have I change the an idea in my head, that black holes are no longer tasty. Ideas do not equal opinions, opinions are ideas. (I just love language in this case, how imperfect it is. The way I can say something is but isn't and still hold it as a logical fact.)

But still, every single piece of information I gather expands my bubble to some direction in someway, may it be opinions, facts, ideas or even lies, it still expands. Knowledge and wisdom do not require facts in order to exist.

Ofc. We could go on fight about how our perspectives are different and how you see the ideas of these words and the ideas in general different. But how I see it is that I possess a great amount of wisdom and knowledge, just like you, because I do not think you are that stupid of a person being able to challenge my words like that, but I hope that you can see things from my perspective, even for a second, for a moment take a look inside my world, my bubble and use it to expand yours.

 

[Blue Hero]

Yes, life is very important. With that said, I'd happily turn everything and everyone into a sentient robot if given the chance.