UniversalAlien wrote:After many thousands of years of recorded human history I have yet to see a clear direction to this history and the reason for it. Why does man exist? Can anyone give a reason why humans exist? Do we have a purpose, a destiny? And if so what is it?

And as a hypothetical afterthought to this question, if a superior alien race that does have a destiny, say to build new star systems, were to ask you as a human what you think your destiny is, could you give them an intelligent answer? Theoretically they just stumbled upon humanity recently; They studied human history and human behavior and they are bewildered - could you give them some indication that humans are an intelligent race of beings with a destiny in the Cosmos?

Peter Kinnon wrote:Schnaps, to return to your earlier comment "These most recent comments re the Internet while interesting, are "off topic".

I would disagree. You see, from my POV, the reason for human existence is to provide an evolutionary medium from which the next phase of the "life" process can emerge. The Internet being the current stage of gestation,

However, I shall leave it there for now and bid you adieu. Any who wish to further explore the paradigm can check out my books.

Dalehileman wrote:

If there was a purpose to human existence wouldn't everyone know what the purpose is,

Not at all Windy (forgive pun)

….especially since it might lie almost entirely within the abstract

Crypticrod wrote:The Vedas state that the purpose of Human existence is to understand the true nature of Self. The cause for Human existence is ignorance. (Note I am disambiguating the word reason from the OP question)

UniversalAlien wrote:

Windy34 wrote:

Peter Kinnon wrote:Schnaps, to return to your earlier comment "These most recent comments re the Internet while interesting, are "off topic".

I would disagree. You see, from my POV, the reason for human existence is to provide an evolutionary medium from which the next phase of the "life" process can emerge. The Internet being the current stage of gestation,

However, I shall leave it there for now and bid you adieu. Any who wish to further explore the paradigm can check out my books.

What next phase of life process is to emerge?

Now to speculate on "What next phase of life process is to emerge." Let us consider two events going on now. The first being that a good part of the human race refuses to give up and in fact ardently maintains a belief in 'a creator' {God}. The second being that AI {artificial intelligence} continues to advance to a degree where even computer scientists have written essays on the threat this AI poses. So without having to write a new science fiction book on the subject {it has often been tackled in Sci-Fi books and movies}, we can see 'a potential' and very negative possibility emerging. Man finally and ultimately outdoes himself. He creates the super machine it is called God. Now man finds the hard way {except for some religious nuts and fanatics who might like it that way}, that the reason for human existence after all was just what the religious crowd said all along - To Serve God! {or the super machine that man created}. Man creates God and turns himself into a slave to his own imagination and creation. Maybe some things never change after all!

UniversalAlien wrote:I say the main reason for Human existence is to discover, find out, or otherwise comprehend the reason for Human existence.

And one of the main reasons for my existence is to ask questions such as: What is the reason for Human existence?

What is the main reason for your existence?

XDredg3 wrote:To eat, breathe, work or school. I wouldn't say those are the reasons for human existence. 2 of the 4 are the reasons we live(existence), but we don't live to eat, breathe. We live to evolve. Also work and school aren't the reasons. School wasn't around when the human race first emerged, work, it depends on what you mean by that. Could it be as simple as working(hunting) for your food, back in the old times, or, do you mean work for money? Working for money isn't our nature it's the nature of society.