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The Meaning of Life

Ah yes, the meaning of life ... There are many paraphrases this seemingly profound question - Where do we come from, where are we going? - Or, to put it to Douglas Adams: "The Question of Life, the Universe and Everything". I as a follower of prose Answers to questions poetic think the question is in this form first, and were ambiguous and, secondly, a touch of megalomania out. Miss

course because "meaning" mostly implies that the something whose meaning we seek, was created by someone in an intention out for anything, so has a purpose. "What is the meaning (and purpose) of a computer?" Is thus a valid question. The "sense of the weather," one looks in vain, however. The weather is just there. It is a natural phenomenon, as we are. No one has been created us or we are, even if it sounds disappointing, the product of a process of random selection Mutations of a complex carbon-based molecule. All the miracles accomplished man so far, the symphonies of Beethoven, the relativity theory, the landing on the Moon, to the words of Carl Sagan, "things that hydrogen atoms do when you give them 15 billion years time .

But where does the question of the meaning of life in general? - Well, for thousands of years it was not questioning taken for granted that we were created but somehow, by one or more gods. Created - oh, then surely for a purpose! Life was filled with a mysterious sense, because such a God is not for nothing that makes the effort. And then suddenly - I give the floor here at Steven Weinberg, who puts it excellently added:

"The people considered themselves characters in a cosmic drama: We were created to have sinned, to be redeemed - a very large remember history. Now we know that we are more like actors standing around with no stage directions on a stage, and that nothing else is left here as a bit of drama to improvise there a little comedy. "

Sigmund Freud had already had a similar epiphany, and developed the theory of the "insults to humanity . After that the first (Copernicus) the humiliation that people suddenly had to realize, not the Earth was the center of the universe, but an insignificant bits of stone somewhere on the outskirts of the Milky Way. The second insult came from Darwin, who made us clear how the man could arise naturally, without divine breath from a common ape-like ancestors. I think, therefore, is the eternal question of the meaning of life: the past, the sense because of the religious influence of course available and easy to find at the pastor / priest / shaman of your trust. Is man but disenchanted as a mere upgrade of the monkey, so it looks (perhaps unconsciously) - For a replacement for the lost throne - and invents a meaning of life, is not there, because there is nobody who can give us this "objective" sense.

What does not prevent us to live the life meaningful, to try to understand the world and to do good. This sense - or rather content - we must give life but even so he is solely in our hands.

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What happens when you show an infant's tongue? - The chance is high that the child then returned the favor. If you a monkey that sings? - The monkey could agree with (see left). If you watch another accidentally touches a hot stove? - Man pulls a pained expression his hand to the body. And when you see sick people to put their own immune system on alert .

The cause of these feelings and reactions is the same: it is the only recently discovered so-called mirror neurons in our brain. Some describe it as the most important discovery in the Neurophysiology of late. In simple words there are nerve cells in our brain that simulate all the actions, feelings and moods of those around us. Diego Maradona to see us when dribbling towards goal, in our brains is a virtual Copy of the striker created. And we risk not only "a little bit with him," no, we are actually in that moment, Diego Maradona. Let us see how someone else is pricked with a needle, there is a corresponding response in our brains out, so that only the absence of pain we must be calm in order to show no defensive or escape behavior. Simply by watching so inevitably we put ourselves into the other person.

Why bother? - It's simple: because we understand our fellow human beings better. Evolution has provided us with actual brain cells that are responsible for empathy (the neuroscientist VS Ramachandran calls they like to publish also " Dalai Lama neurons "). Man as a social system from the ground up, they need to facilitate the interaction with others. He has the inner lives of others, their intentions, emotions, etc. guess not by logical conclusions from their external behavior, he feels just as if it were his own! Significantly, even in people with autism, people who have problems interacting with others, a weak mirror neuron activity been established. Even doctors' protect themselves "by a reduced sensitivity of the ongoing management of pain of others.

The less direct experience Empathy for another person but is just tied to immediate perception. We see a helpless people on the streets, we have a greater need to help him than when it comes to millions of starving Africans is that we have never seen. clear evolution from a theoretical point of view: We should worry only about the immediate past members of the tribe who were related to us many times, and not to people who do not concern us. Therefore agree in the famous trolley dilemma most respondents, a human sacrifice in an indirect way, by turning the switch, but not directly by pushing down from the bridge. The Dalai Lama neurons, to make his suffering as our own, to prevent it creates a hand.

Asians have traditionally distanced themselves from the idea of the individual. For it is one of the community, the association to which one belongs to, the unit under Miscellaneous. Mirror neurons give them right in a way. When I interact with others, I flipped on their heads and thus become a part of them. The boundaries between the individual and "the others" are resolved to some extent. It is, as long as you come into direct contact with other, never "alone". I'm also a bit of you, and not by deductive conclusions, but quite direct - thanks to the mirror in my brain.

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Oh, if only it were that simple! Easy to put into the car, time and type losdüsen. 88 miles per hour - whoosh! - We have reached in the distant future - or in a dark past. But as easy as in the science-fiction classic "Back to the Future" time travel is not. Despite the lack of prospects, for example, the stock prices of today in the luggage did yesterday go public, would certainly not lacking. Or repeat the botched dream date with the woman this time and make sure that we not drill all too apparent in the nose. What is the travel time that is in the way? Time but, like space, just another dimension, right?

The brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking has joked times, if time travel were possible, we would have long since overrun by hordes of tourists from the future. But now seriously: One must first differentiate between the travel times in the future and such in the past. First, the simpler: the future. There are actually a relatively clear principle that allows us to look after 3 minutes of our grandchildren. You either climb into a rocket, with the darkest lichtgeschwindikeitsnahen speed through space, or to park the rocket on the edge of a gravity-dripping black hole (hineinzurutschen without, of course). For according to the special and general relativity time passes slower the more the faster you move, or the stronger the gravitational force acting on one. While passing on the earth for your remaining contemporaries a century, shows your own Clock only five minutes. Or even less. The cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev traveled during his 800 days in space in a whole Fünzigstelsekunde the future - but only because we can not produce higher speeds.

looks much more difficult it out when it comes to traveling back in time. There is one small and two large stumbling blocks. The small one is the logic. They argued that if past trips were possible, there would be an irreconcilable paradox:

You could kill his own grandfather,
would that even born never
so would have no one there who could kill the grandfather,
so that born but now would
and would go back in time to kill the grandfather ...

It turns always in a circle, and the universe does not like such contradictions. On this issue there is a surprisingly simple answer - the self-compliance principle . It states that only such course of events are possible, the not contain self-contradictions. When I was thus born, then I can indeed go back in time to kill my grandfather, but I will not make it in some way - either I meet him on or not someone else confused with him (and now know who the mysterious unsolved committed murder, has told the grandfather of the time). And when I travel back in time to find out what you have seen for a mighty unusual flash my neighbors two days ago, then the only explanation for the flash of light that I have caused him to travel through time itself. The causality loop is closed in this way, the world is again consistent.

But the first big stumbling block: how us insignificant patent officer from Bern informed, has each object has its own time (otherwise it would not provide this journey into the future, which relates so well to only one object, possible ). So climb into the time machine to travel so only in the own past - that is, one is younger. The rest of the world, this does not matter, he remains, as it is. To travel into the past "within the meaning of the science-fiction stories, one would have reversed the whole rest of the world put in the time machine (and themselves remain outside), which obviously technically impossible (for more complications resulting from past trips here ).

The biggest problem to travel to the past is this: You can not go into something that does not exist. And time does not exist. Of course, we all have a clock, but time there are not as such. It is a mere construct of our consciousness, a calculating aid, a measure of changes in the world. The physicist Ernst Mach said again: "The time is ... an abstraction to which we go through the change of things", and he is right . , so it is also absurd to ask what it was before the Big Bang - da nothing existed, there was no time, no amount of change or movement of something. "Before the Big Bang" is thus an equally nonsensical sentence like: "North of the North Pole." Since time exists only in perception, one can moreover also measure how fast it goes by a particular sector. Happen in the brain computational processes 100 in 1 second elapses more slowly for this being the time than if the same processes take 10 seconds ("oops, only a short 10 seconds and already enjoys over !..."). Why is the time in old age, with decreasing speed of thought processes demonstrably slower . But if the only time a think of our minds and nothing more, you can not stay in it. One can only slow down the speed or sequence of events (so future trips), but never turn back.

Theoretishe Although physicists speculate about time travel by means of rotating universes or stable worm holes in the curved space-time, but all these are highly controversial and thought-structures, in reality, impossible. We are so caught up in the now. The very fast tomorrow, or "ten-years-later" is. And then the time for us because we think more slowly, too quickly passes. Gather therefore the day!