You asked questions about one particular life form then you are surprised the answers are rooted in Biology?
Ask me anything about any non-living thing and the answers will be rooted in Physics or Chemistry.
I gave you our life purpose and meaning.
Yes I did and to your credit you answered straightforwardly and in a manner that lets us cut to the heart of the issue.
We saw that at the center of your belief structure once we slip past the rings of scientific thought lies a belief a faith in nihilism. Similarly we could do the same for me and once past the science we would find theism.
That fundamental difference makes sense and explains our prolonged argument over these many pages and threads. A robotic individual with a wholly scientific perspective would have no interest or motivation to participate in such a debate. Is it currently empirically testable they would ask? If the answer was no they would shrug their shoulders say they had no idea and move on to other topics that could be tested.
There are, however, many questions that matter deeply to us that are not empirically testable. I highlighted a few above but there are many many others. This is why a foundational religion or philosophy is an inescapable necessity if we are going to interact with the world.
Some foundational philosophies are mutually exclusive. When proponents of such philosophies meet clashes and conflict is expected which is exactly what we see.
I agree. I bet if I ask you what is the purpose of bees your answer will be different than mine.
You see my position as too simplistic.
I see your delving for some supernatural cause that physically is not there as being deluded.
Yes and thus we reach the end of the road.
Our differences are revealled to be ultimately not scientific in nature but directly traceable to different empirically untestable and mutually exclusive a priori truths.
BadDecker would say we have different religious. I think that word has too much potential for misunderstanding and would instead say that we have different faiths.
