Friday, October 27, 2023

Emergent properties

Looking for the meaning of life among electrons and protons is hopeless. You won't find it there. It's like looking for gold in the potato field. Nor will you find it in chromosomes or among nerve cells. Physicists and biologists have looked deeply into this, and they see no evidence for meaning in nature. So they claim that there is no meaning in life, really, because, ultimately, the world is nothing but atoms and molecules.

However, meaning, right and wrong, justice and evil exist among human beings on the human level.

You are not just your atoms and molecules.