How do you feel about questions that have no answers?

What is the meaning of life?
What is the origin of the universe?
Why am I conscious?

Good luck with those. Atheism has not answered anything for you, it’s just how you choose to deal with not knowing. While I’m technically an Atheist by definition I’m Agnostic as I don’t know that the universe was not created or that there is not more to being conscious which are simply unknown.

I’m fine with it.

Indifferent.

@ARE_you_kidding_me There is no meaning of life. None.

As far as we’ve been able to determine, the big bang was the origin of our universe as we know it. What came before, or what will come after, we don’t know. Yet. But there IS an answer out there.

You are conscious because of the firing of nerves of the brain. Same reason dogs and cats and worms are conscious. It’s pretty cool.

There is an answer to everything. We may not know the answer yet, but it’s out there.

I find that questions that have no answers are to get one to think on the subject.
Philosophy is made up of questions that are thought provoking.

No problem.

It is epistemologically more valid to say I don’t know or Nobody knows, than it is to commit a logical fallacy in attempt to concoct an answer

Sometimes they are discussion worthy. Sometimes they just aren’t.

The questions that bothered me the most were theological ones. They involved human lives and the capriciousness of a God who controlled them.

I like this quote
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
― Richard Feynman

They are not mutually exclusive @RedDeerGuy1.

@Dutchess_III I don’t understand?

@RDG, I like that quote. It speaks to the insatiable curiosity which sets humans apart from other creatures.

“You are conscious because of the firing of bio-neural nerves of the brain. Same reason dogs and cats and worms are conscious. It’s pretty cool.”

You don’t know this as a matter of fact. You don’t know that worms are even conscious. The origin and nature of consciousness is still highly debated even in the scientific community to this day.

“There is no meaning of life. None.”

You don’t know this either. You won’t know until possibly we answer the origin of the universe question.

You can have questions that can’t be answered AND answers that can’t be questioned at the same time.

I like the unanswered questions, because I use them to test my imagination, and make them an underying topic in my fiction. I try to answer some of those questions with stories which attempt to explain the unanswerable, albeit highly unlikely, but in ways that hopefully can’t be disputed.

Shit happens. It’s par for the course.

@Dutchess_III How do you feel about questions that have no answers?

I said how I feel in the details. I hate it when people say “There is no answer to that question.”

@Dutchess_lll
There are always answers but then the question becomes do you like the answers given?
Not everyone is happy with the answers, but they don’t have to agree with it.

I think of philosophy as the study of unanswerable questions. Different philosophers will have different answers, which are worth considering, but in the end, the questions still remain.

What does it mean to be moral? What is beauty? What is consciousness, and how would you test for it?

Morality is a human construction that varies between individuals. There is no one right answer.

Beauty is symmetry.

To test for consciousness ask it a question or poke it. If it answers or reacts it’s conscious

^^so my amazon echo is conscious?

Poke it.

So when I poke a house of cards and it falls it’s conscious?
How about this thing

No. That’s simple gravity.

That thing is a robot. It works on a computer program. Not the same as a sentient being.

If you poke it, it reacts.

How technical do you want to get? You can trick Venus flytrap into reacting. It doesn’t mean it’s conscious.
I think.an organism has to have a central, biological brain, no matter how primitive, to be conscious. It needs to react independently.

My point is that these things are not easily definable. We are already there with software, A.I. is a thing but I would not call it conscious even though I bet the Turing test is easily passed now.

I agree. It’s just arm chair philosophy.

But things like “the meaning of life,” are man made questions. Dogs and cats don’t worry about it. All it means is that humans can think up questions that have no answers because there IS no meaning to life. Someone can be of the opinion that I’m wrong, and that’s fine. But the fact is, there is no answer to that question.
It’s like asking, “What is the meaning of popcorn?” Some could argue that popcorn is really important.

The feeling of consciousness is due to brain activity, and it’s really freaking cool to think about. But it’s not magic.

Cats and dogs don’t use iPhones either. Just because we can think or create something, even as ephemeral as the meaning of life and dogs and cats don’t does not mean that no meaning exists. I can’t prove my dog has never faced an existential crisis either so there is that. Those questions may not be intrinsic to humans. We just can’t recognize it .

There is no more meaning to life for me than there is for an earthworm. It’s pointless to ask a question about something that doesn’t exist.

@ARE_you_kidding_me App for cats

If you really HAVE to have an answer to that question, then ask what the meaning of life is to an elk. Well, the answer is….sex. Procreation. It is SO meaningful that male elk will fight to the death to get some nookie.

Apparently Dutch is conscious. @AYKM poked her and she reacted. Lol

True true, I don’t let dutch get away with much.