This article discusses the ultimate meaning of life mentioned in the Star Trek series, 2001 Space Odyssey, and Hitchhiker's guide to galexy. We can see that they put forward two answers and two evaluations to the ultimate meaning question, which can be summed up as the following:
I. Life is meaningful, II. Life is meaningless,
III. Discuss whether there is meaning in life is meaningful, IV. Whether there is meaning in life is meaningless...
When I watched "star-trek" for the first time, I even watched "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", which is really not attractive in comparison. What makes Star Trek stand out is the fun of sailing, even though it is worse than the psychological effect created by the ancient costume film "Fighting Sea". There is only one attraction of the whole series, which is the logical supremacy of Vulcan (Science Officer Spock) and Live Long and Prosper.
On logic, meaning and purpose
There are many people who have thought about the meaning of life, but few who have thought about the meaning of realizing that meaning—— Vadahi*Kami
In fact, the first motion picture discussed the above issues. Vulcan people follow logic and only believe in logic, which will inevitably lead to the end of evolution mentioned in other articles (logic is a formal system). The problem that logic solves is the conclusion that can be derived from the axioms of the formal system, but not the axiom itself. However, the survival of the Vulcan also shows that their logic is not purposelessly repeated synonymously. In their system, except for logic, or a guide for all logic and actions, this is the phrase Live Long and Prosper. Think carefully. Very precise and painstaking. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy explores similar questions (the Ultimate Question). Then there is a kind of ruthless, nonsensical, but disgusting bureaucratic idiot Vogons in the play similar to the concept of Vulcan. The cumbersome government procedures may be a misunderstanding of logic, or a misunderstanding of Vulcan’s beautiful logic: logic It is also to solve the problem, for example, Spock can quickly learn to speak bad language, even though their intelligence in this area is not perfect. The CAL of 2001 Space Roaming is simply a machine, focusing on the purpose (this is the same as the plot of the first part of Star Trek), and does not care about sacrificing people (or it does not have this concept at all) or other things. Therefore, it was defeated by humans. Even more morally, CAL expressed the fear of death before being demolished.
The essence of meaning is the purpose, which is the quantification of the realization ability. A complete statement of "whether it makes sense" is a matter of "what makes sense". The end can be a means of other ends at the same time, the end is relative, and there is no ultimate end. The discussion of purpose can be the same as the following incomplete systems of Infinite Truth, always moving forward, and definitely not reaching the end.
To get back to the subject, the answers they gave separately about these are, first of all, I regret that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is counter-logic. Instead of answering question I, he jumped over to answer question IV. 42 symbolizes meaninglessness. The meaning and purpose it recognizes lies in "love", although he thinks this is illogical and does not need to be logical-it is the ultimate logic of the film. The 2001 Space Wandering did not give a definite answer. From its perspective, it is certain that humans are not and should not serve the purpose, but machines are. As if life itself is meaningful-but there is no purpose to achieve.
The teleology of meaning does not deny the universal existence of meaning. The so-called purpose is not the purpose of behavior-but the corresponding purpose when describing meaning, that is to say, meaning is relative, because purpose is also.
The most important key to a Vulcan that is logical but avoids the trap of evolutionary end is that their behavior and life are different from the former, and they have a real ultimate purpose (and the failure and fallacy of the machine for the purpose of giving Creater information, and Spock’s The essential difference between "humanity" and sublime lies in the mistake of purpose formulation (perhaps that the meaning of life is not the original intention). Meaning has meaning, but Ultimate has no meaning. Life driven by logic rules must try to achieve its purpose of survival-this should be a logically evolutionary and heritable purpose: Live Long, and Prosper. Movies (other than spock) make me feel silly, and I don't understand the Americans' pursuit of it. The first one is an interesting script, the latter is even more messy. So expectations are not high (and because of this, I was a little satisfied when I saw XI). The feature of the 2001 Cosmic Odyssey is the imagination of science, the Star Wars series is a space background, and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy emphasizes the meaning of pursuing human nature. Which one resonates more with Chinese audiences? Transformers!
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