The Purpose of Human Life
Question from the Internet:
What is the purpose of human life and why is the average lifespan longer than just a few years?
My Answer:
The purpose of human life is to learn what it means and how to become “truly Human.” And in this respect, it is totally irrelevant how many years we exist in this physical world.
We are not born as “Human beings.” We are born with Human potential.
By default, we are as basic and instinctive beings as other animals with who we share our genetic make-up, almost with 100% similarity. It is true that our desires and goals are a bit more sophisticated than the desires of animals. However, we are also primarily driven mainly by the “animate desires” of food, shelter, sex, and family. While we also have the social desires of wealth, power, control, fame, and knowledge, most animals also have some of those desires as well.
Moreover, by default, human beings use their desires in a 100% self-centered, self-justifying, self-serving, and exploitative manner. We do not sense the “inbuilt balance and harmony.” All other still, vegetative, and animate elements of nature’s system feel by default.
While all other parts of nature keep — even while they also do everything possible to fulfill their basic existential necessities — nature’s overall balance and homeostasis, instinctively and unconsciously “knowing” that their existence depends on this all-encompassing balance and homeostasis, instinctive humans recklessly and ignorantly consume and destroy everything in the name of endless and self-justified consumerism.
This is “not our fault.” We are born without this instinctive belonging and integration into nature’s system. We naively feel and think as if we were outside of and above the nature system and we can do whatever we want.
Moreover, even when we already know that we are harmful like cancer to nature’s system and to ourselves, we simply cannot stop and change our ways as we are 100% controlled and driven by the unique human ego that wants everything for itself at all costs, readily exploiting and destroying everything and everybody in the process.
Nature’s evolution developed us with this human ego. Nature’s evolution made us exist and behave like cancer. This is the only way we could develop independence — and opposition to — from nature’s system and a unique human consciousness and observer status. It is the ego that drove our incredible social, cultural, and technological development, while our “predecessors” still live in the same way in the same natural habitat as millions of years ago.
Thus, the human ego is not necessarily negative. However, we have to learn how to use its incredible driving force and aspiration. We have to learn to harness and even restrict our egos before we develop the ability to use its driving force only with different intentions.
If we learn and practice how to use everything we have — instead of selfishly using everything only for our own, self-destructive sake — for the sake of others and the sake of the whole natural system, from nature’s mortal enemies we become nature’s benevolent and omnipotent partners and guardians.
With that changed intention, we can build a single, mutually integrated, and mutually complementing humanity with an unprecedented, collective consciousness and intellect. This way, against and above our inherent inclination, we become as balanced and harmonious as nature, capable of creating and nurturing life instead of destroying it.
This is the purpose of our lives, to become such “truly Human” beings, meriting being the peak of natural evolution, fulfilling nature’s deterministic evolutionary plan.
With the right scientific method — which is openly available to everyone — the whole of humanity can achieve this Human purpose swiftly while avoiding unnecessary suffering and crisis situations. A small, constantly growing group of people has already started this process, and hopefully, with their positive example, they will be able to attract more and more people behind them.