The most important question is not "What is the meaning of life?" (sorry for my apparently misleading title).
Instead, the most important questions are:
1) "What does the Universe want from me?"
2) "Why am I alive, looking behind the eyes of this person in this life that I am living?"
To my knowledge, no one has ever asked these questions, and the closest has been Shakespeare in Hamlet.
Question 1: What does the Universe want from me? Well, to answer that, you need to look at the hard sciences and social sciences. Is any one person qualified to do that? No. Am I? No. Who am I? I am someone who dropped out of graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, not because of grades, but because of budget funding and also I wanted to generalize rather than specialize. Anyone who's been to grad school and worked on a PhD will know that you have to specialize. "Be more specific!" "What do you mean?", etc., so I got an ABD in ling/psych cross study, left with just a master's (my second), and that's that.
Basically the Universe wants us to be a part of society so that we can develop systems that become more complex. The most complex thing in the Universe it has been said by physicists is the human brain, which is far more complex than the inside of stars. No one knows about the inside of black holes. What is the endgame? Probably building some kind of artificial intelligence that can gather resources affect the space around us. For what purpose? Probably to create another Universe.
Why do I think this? Because the Universe is not a closed system and thus the 2nd law of thermodynamics does not apply. It is a dynamic complex system whose purpose is to eventually reproduce. Perhaps the seeds of the Universe are not stars but black holes, which are also not closed systems as Hawking showed.
So the Universe wants you to do one of several things so that it can reach its ultimate goal of reproducing:
1) Carry on the human race and further the advancement of human technology so that we can put energy to work, smarter, smaller, faster and cheaper, namely through technology like making the cpus in computers smaller and smaller with quantum computing on the horizon. In effect, humanity is putting all of its information and complexity into smaller, faster, more efficient and more powerful thinking machines (I don't say computers because with the advent of AI, we add some features to the standard machine people now associate with computers).
2) So this means go out, have a date, have children, etc. We are a piece of the humanity puzzle that is ever moving forward. If you do not make cpus or AI, or other leaps in technology the Universe wants directly, then you likely propel it in other ways like supporting those who do carry this line of sacred work.
What are we humans programmed for? Social relationships. Homo sapiens sapiens (Humans) are probably the most social species on planet Earth. Over a period of 2-6 million years we quadrupled our brain sizes to handle social interactions and to pool our intellectual resources together to survive and thrive. We are not meant to live alone. Most likely we formed hunting and war parties which attacked each other, which is why we have modern sports today. The best teams "won" in the sense that they attacked each other and reproduced, not just survived the battles. The teams that communicated best were the ones that survived and reproduced. This is probably why human brain sizes increased so rapidly: there was a tournament going on all the time, winner take all in a sense (loser ends up a fossil).
There are so many implications to this across the fields of economics, sociology, psychology, finance, etc. If there's interest in the Internets to cover these things in more detail, I will. Am I qualified to talk about all of these fields and how they relate to my theory? Of course not. I am an expert in none of them, but here expert means a specialist in a particular area of a particular field. PhDs must delve into the specifics of thin lane of a field (and they teach the basics because they are assumed to have these covered). I do not, I believe, need to have very detailed knowledge of certain areas in these fields to grasp the bigger picture (though I think it would help).
I'll go onto question 2 in future posts...Please comment to let me know you're out there.
