What Makes Our Life Meaningful?

Modern Science

I hope the author of the meme here doesn’t judge the value of his life by his success or failure on any of this.

I don’t want to sound cynical, but there is no reason to believe humankind evolved here on Earth with the capacity to grasp these concepts.

If, as string theorists suggest, the building blocks of the universe are perceptible only in 11 dimensions, we have no advantage over dogs and cats in being able to make sense of this.

Having said that, physics has wrapped its wits around a heck of a lot of stuff in the 120 years since it went past Newtonian mechanics and got into things that we can’t directly perceive.  And, though I know less about it, I’m told the neuroscience may be getting us closer to figuring out human consciousness.

In any case, here’s my advice: be prepared to live–and die–with unanswered questions.