So far, this is my conclusion on life:
Life in its fundamental sense is free energy. Brain/mind tries to direct it, in a way that it thinks is beneficial for organism. Because that's how evolution developed it, that's how replicating organisms evolved on earth. The tragedy of humans is that we had good memory and more mirror neuron so became capable of reflecting and being aware of things and our actions in hindsight. While it helped us getting better at survival it also increased our suffering to level no animal had ever seen. We saw death! Development of religion is one of the most primitive traits of all human tribes, why? We had to develop an afterlife. We had to develop gods that take care of our crops, rains, floods. Otherwise it was just chaos in front of us upon reflection. It rains anytime, flood comes anytime destroying our crops, animals attack out of nowhere. Above all, we die. How could any human reflect on these things and keep a healthy mind. He had to find solutions to these problems.
Mind is a result oriented machine. That's why the conclusion that "life is meaningless" is perceived negatively. Such people then draw up another conclusion, that if life is meaningless then eat, drink and be merry. That's often the philosophy of atheists and nihilists. But it's again another conclusion of mind, because there is some is perceived benefit in 'eat, drink and be merry'. They bring good feelings, they are pleasurable to senses. But it's not Truth of life. Truth of life is that life is. Now it doesn't give us about origins of life. Yet it's complete truth. It's complete in the practical sense. Origin of life is a past thing, something that already happened. Knowing the story of origin is merely that - knowledge of a story. The practical thing, the reality is the present life. Knowing about that reality is the main thing. Thus the truth about present life is complete truth in practical sense.
The energy is flowing. The mind tries to direct it towards a supposedly beneficial thing. I spent a lot of my time, too much of my time, analyzing, believing or chasing its various conclusions, either my own conclusions or of others. But I was probably lucky because my will to truth used to take me out of those loops eventually.
The directionless of energy, the is-ness of life, comes with another consequence: freedom in answer to question:"what to do?" What to do? No matter what the truth of life is, I still have to live my life in some way. I am existing with the energy and the apparatus of evolution. I have to do something with it. The is-ness of life gives me freedom to do anything. I had this freedom earlier too before finding truth of life, but I didn't know it, I wasn't sure of it.
So that's my point, that's my conclusion regarding the fundamental, the practical question, the only question that actually matters: 'What to do?' This is actually the most important thing, more important than knowing the truth about origin of life. How life arose is not important. Important is what to do. What should I, as an individual do, how should I live my life, that's what's important for me. And when I seek truth I am actually seeking the answer of "what to do?" in the hope that maybe past and truth about life and evolution will give me the answer to it. The story or truth of life in itself should be irrelevant to me. I am living now and I have this life, this energy, this ability with me and the only question is what to do at this moment.
Again I am amazed at the loop. Because this is the same conclusion that I reached to 10 years ago, in my post 'Decoding Life'.
