PeterL

Hello, this is my first public blog post here, so I apologize for possible inappropriateness of language/style/etc. The first of recent ideas related to the meaning of existence that comes to my mind is to achieve eternity of my life. This sounds intuitive, but it has some flaws which reside not in the first-idea notion that this might be unrealistic. So let me first explain the flaw in this idea on one side, while this will help me to modify and adjust this idea to the more sensible and more likely flawless for the meaning of existence. The above mentioned flaw resides in this: If you should live eternally without any interruptions of your life during your eternal existence but without any awake conscious moment, would it have any meaning to you? Or more clear dilemma is to choose between the following two scenarios: (I) From a certain moment in future, to live eternally without any interruption, but to always sleep. (II) From a certain moment in future, to live alternatingly with the whiles of death, but with infinite number of awake moments, or more accurately, that chronologically later than each while without awake consciousness, there would be at least one moment with it, etc. I would choose the second scenario. Thus, I think that the moments of awake consciousness are at least necessary features of meaningful existence, but the continuity of life is not. But to put it more exactly, I will use the (hard-core) math (logic) to partially define the meaning of existence: Statement 1: The necessary condition for meaningfulness of existence is that for each moment in the future (t_f), there would be at least one moment of meaningfulness sometime later than the moment t_f. Statement 2: The necessary conditions for the moment to possess the meaningfulness are: awake consciousness; self-awareness; confidence that I am the part of the reality; confidence of own existence and the knowledge of the logic-empirical reason for this; confidence that something like