Mind's Eye Re: Question of Purpose

I have noticed, over the years, that much 'purpose' is something else
- seemingly fabricated - as in mission statements as bad as higher
education institutions 'being about' providing high quality
educational experiences - something one could hardly think of as
differentiating one from another. In practice we seem to be limited
to making the same old mistakes with statements of purpose connected
with fantasy. We might do better to think more in terms of
structuring opportunities to nurture each other.

On 10 Feb, 15:30, Molly <mollyb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think purpose is relevant to us, until it is not, like cause and
> effect is important until, it is not.
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> On Feb 9, 10:42 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > That seems about right ID10.  The world is perspectival - all sorts of
> > stuff is justified from this perspective and that - many societies
> > have lived with slavery justified and so on.  All of us are brought up
> > to believe one parochial set of beliefs or another.  There seems to
> > have been a time before human perspective.  I think science has more
> > or less told us our purpose is to develop technology to leave the
> > planet - but this is purpose limited by assumptions it's better to
> > survive than not.  It leaves open wider questions of purpose that we
> > might gather along the way or give up on.  I'm not keen on purpose
> > gained from religious faith or faith in one's country - we all turn
> > out to have lots to be ashamed of in these respects.  I'm fairly sure
> > no that human purpose is now largely irrelevant and our future lies in
> > machine life.
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> > On Feb 9, 11:31 am, "ID10ToT...@googlemail.com"
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> > <id10tot...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Does the concept of purpose apply to species lower than humans or only to humans? If it does apply then at what level does it stop, sheep, fish, plans? And in case it stops at some level or ronly applies to humans is this definition based on the species having a spirit or a soul as some body may suggest, or is it based on having a certain level of consciousness? If it's based on the concept of a spirit or a soul then it's a matter of metaphysics and faith. If it's based on consciousness and we are talking in terms of the physical universe in which we live, then by definition purpose would be an invention of the human mind and it would be a matter of definition and how we view the world and view ourselves in it but it would be anything but a universal metaphysical thing on which we all could agree especially that it would look entirely different in the eyes of a more advanced species than our selves.

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