Answer to Question #256585 in Philosophy for Mike

Question

What is the meaning of life? Do our consciousness really matter? What if we are alone in the universe? What if hypothetical theory of multiverse comes true, maybe our existence takes a huge part of shaping it and if that is true what is our current objective?

Answer 1

(a)   Life is the quality that differentiates a vital and functional being from a dead body. It is a principle or force that is considered to inspire the unique quality of animate beings.

(b)  It is easy to know that Consciousness guarantees peace and happiness in life. Our consciousness matter in that it detects our choices of positive response, the less it will provide us with the negative occurrences and thus emotions by which we learn from. In other words, we are given back exactly what we project onto ourselves and others.

(c)   Two possibilities exist, we are alone in the universe or we are not, this is according to Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Both are equally terrifying.

Multiverse, a hypothetical collection of potentially diverse observable universes, each of which would comprise everything that is experimentally accessible by a connected community of observers. It states that the observable known universe, which is accessible to telescopes, is about 90 billion light-years across.