{"id":262,"date":"2010-04-16T01:27:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T06:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=262"},"modified":"2010-11-12T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:16:06","slug":"whats-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"what&#8217;s the point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The universe may or may not end at some point. If it doesn&#8217;t end, then what&#8217;s the point of life since any lifetime is finite and hence negligible? If it does end, then even more so, what&#8217;s the point of progress and advancement? What&#8217;s the performance objective of life, if there is implicitly one?<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that the objective is to maximize the perturbation to the universe, through some combination of genetics and memetics, in case it doesn&#8217;t end? More offsprings, more perturbation through biology; make more &#8220;difference&#8221; to the world, more perturbation through culture? That would be one secular response in favor of the here-and-now, compared to the alternative, somewhat ascetic objective of seeking inner satisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe may or may not end at some point. If it doesn&#8217;t end, then what&#8217;s the point of life since any lifetime is finite and hence negligible? If it does end, then even more so, what&#8217;s the point of progress and advancement? What&#8217;s the performance objective of life, if there is implicitly one? Could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1817,1816,212,215,218,216,188,214,219],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-difference","tag-genetics","tag-inner-satisfaction","tag-memetics","tag-objective","tag-perturbation","tag-progress","tag-progress-and-advancement","tag-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}