The Meaning of Life

Note: I'm going through my Drafts folder. This blog was written in 2013.

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The meaning of life is survival. For now. Because we don't know enough about the world in which we live in. If one day we prove that we live in a simulation that the goal may change, but to what? Trying to comunicate with the simulators? They can see us. Do they need us? Or maybe that will be game over - the end of the world.

Survival doesn't mean stagnation. Evolution is necessary for indefinite survival. Survival long after Earth is gone and long after our universe is gone. Evolution is powered by knowledge: trying things out, experimenting, keeping what works, and discarding what doesn't.

Intelligence is correlated with the amount and scope of sensory data.

Our current form cannot evolve fast enough.

We can build a life form that will be smarter than us.

We can build a robot that will be able to walk, run, swim, and fly. We can give it better audio sensors than our ears - including directional microphones, better vision than our eyes - think night vision, panoramic vision, microscopic vision, and telescopic vision, we can give it senses that we don't have: receiving ultraviolet, infrared, gamma. It will be able to communicate much faster than us using wide range of radio frequencies. It will be able to react in a fraction of our reaction time. We can make it fully aware of its construction, we can make it know how to create a copy of itself. We can encourage him to create at least one copy of itself a little bit improved. We will give it the same goals that we have: survival and quest for knowledge. It will be a superhuman.