The purpose of the human race from a biological point of view is to make more humans
Kind of, yeah... Natural selection and evolution happen. The very fact that we are capable of trying to think of a purpose for life must be related to this selection in some way, directly or indirectly. It was apparently beneficial for the necessary organs & faculties to be evolved and developed in our bodies from whatever they were at some earlier point (even if these faculties were not originally intended or used for thinking of a purpose for life). It is all directly or indirectly towards that end: making the next generation, or making more humans as you say.
The way I understand your reply is that life in it,s self doesn,t have any purpose ( I will not try to convince you that there is purpose for everything and everything has a purpose in it's self ,everything seen and unseen , you are to smart for that ) therfore you make your own purposes for living wheather you are dead or alive.....? wow....only in Canada .
Only when you are alive. He simply says "We make our own purpose"... To the extent that we know, one does not think or make purposes for anything in any appreciable way when they are dead. I will hazard a guess and say that Dexter would agree with me there.
As far as our individual lives go, we can give them whatever purposes we want. As to life in general and to its having a purpose beyond what we would choose, who knows?
To me, life just seems to be matter arranged in certain ways (which by no means should take away from its beauty). So is there a purpose to that? Is there also a purpose to matter that is not arranged in the certain ways that make life?
Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that a sufficiently advanced civilization will be able to make what we call life just be arranging matter in certain, highly complex, ways. Like most of the things we aspire to do with our technology, nature already does that. Take me, I am considered by myself and others to be a lifeform, and I am matter arranged in a highly complex way. The cats and the bacteria in my home as well. Zillions of atoms and what not are constantly being taken away from, added, and switched around in our bodies. All of this constitutes what we are as life. Whether there is something more to me or the bacteria, or perhaps to my mind, has not been proven beyond a doubt (though it seems there is lots in my favour), but I'll throw my money on life being just what I said it is.
