SomeDudeist t1_iu61kcf wrote on October 28, 2022 at 8:34 PM

Reply to comment by Tmaster95 in Getting horny is your bodies way of reminding you what you're really here for. by Meshd

I feel like reducing life to reproduction is just ignoring the fact that it's alive. The reason I think the universe is more than mechanical is because it's alive. Or parts of it anyway. Lol

Tmaster95 t1_iu67a54 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 9:15 PM

Being alive is a label invented by humanity to adress constructs and arrangements of matter that can react to its environment and sense things. Being alive doesn’t mean anything and doesn’t change the purpose of anything. Plants are alive. What is their purpose? Survival and reproduction. Many wouldn’t say the universe is alive but I think it could be just to slow to see, still there is no proof for that.

JCPRuckus t1_iu6log3 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:04 PM

If life doesn't reproduce then there's no more life. If the purpose of life was to live, and then wink out and leave the universe sterile, then we wouldn't exist to be having this conversation.

I'm not "reducing" life to reproduction. I'm not saying life is reproduction. I'm saying that reproduction is part of the definition of life. So if you don't reproduce, you have missed out on part of the fundamental meaning of being alive.