Why we are here

Why we are here on Earth

If the scientific picture we currently have is right, we are here because of, roughly speakign, an accident,

At various places some highly organised physical systems – living organisms – became aware of the world they are part of. In a few cases (us) they also become aware of their awareness.

These living systems (us)are products of evolution by natural selection, an undirected process that began in a fortuitous combining of chemical and physical conditions, whose course is dependent on accidents of history, and which is driven by the slight reproductive advantages some organisms enjoy over others.

Even if Earth is not the only place where this has happened, the vast majority of the universe contains no awareness, no life, no reasoning. We, the awoken parts of the universe, can look around and reflect on all this, including the fact that there is no overall purpose to our being here.

What did Albert Camus say about there being no purpose to us being here? It is the realisation that my life has no purpose that gives me purpose.