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Asked by steven with a v to anuantony, Duncan, Jayne, Katherine, Sajid on 8 Nov 2017.
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Duncan McNicholl answered on 8 Nov 2017:
Both, I think. I know from scientific books and articles that we’re pretty much made by random chance, and that we’re atoms which aren’t that different from the atoms that make up rocks and planets and other stuff, and that we’re floating in a fairly boring bit of a fairly boring galaxy, but then I think about my nephew, who is about six weeks old, and I remember that he’s awesome, and that I can’t wait from him to grow up so that I can help to teach him about the world, and that I don’t want him to grow up because he’s so adorable just the way he is, and I think that he matters a lot.
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So I think that we’re random collections of atoms floating around in space who matter.
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Jayne Ede answered on 9 Nov 2017:
this is a brilliant unintended pun. collections of atoms are ‘matter’. aha.
No but really this is a very good and philosophical question that has been asked for centuries. I think what’s important is to identify what you believe is good, righteous behaviour, and to practice that. Whether or not life matters, we all experience it, so we should do what we can to make that experience as nice as possible.
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Katherine Byrne answered on 10 Nov 2017:
We are just random collections of atoms… but on the other hand, those collections, somehow, have thoughts and feelings, so as one random collection to another, I’d say it’s pretty important to be nice to one another and work hard to make things as good as they can be for all the random collections…
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