ON THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF BIOLOGICAL LIFE

Biological existence and biological life in all its nuances, one can say, springs from chemical reactions and its interactions with water and bacteria and is all a process, our ancestors were basically worm like creatures that sprung from these basic processes. Plants, greenery and trees must of come from different types of mold. All molecules, atoms and particles have a ceaseless and restless movement and all the movement that exists in the universe is due to this ceaseless and restless movement in energy, there are not any forms of matter that are static, so therefore all forms of biological life are a "creative ordering" amongst this ceaseless and active movement of processes in matter. All creation is automatic and inevitable and springs from this movement and all forms of biological life in general cannot be said to have come about by accident or chance and so even if humans did not exist there would still be many other forms of biological life around nonetheless because other animals and plants and so on would still exist. All of the meaning and purpose that is ever to be found in reality prior to the meaning that we create can only be found within the context of processes and their outcomes and also in the circumstances that exist therein. The passing on of one's own genes seems to be the main purpose of our existence as human beings in the context of what I have mentioned above.
Meaning and purpose are slightly different concepts, but are connected within the processes of events, for example, meaning is anything that has a serious, useful or important quality, whereas purpose means the intention, aim or design of a thing or its behaviour. Meaning can be said to be found in our need for air, food, water and sunlight because these things have serious, useful and important qualities for the very survival of our own existence itself and exists prior to any other meaning that we create ourselves, whereas purpose applies more to procreation or the meaning that we create ourselves. The word "meaning" has also come to signify both the definition of the word meaning that I have already given as well as the definition I have given for the word purpose both together as its meaning, for example, as in "something that is meant or intended because it has a serious, useful or important quality that one is referring to". "Biological forms with a mind" are animals and humans and all forms of life that have a mind and are capable of translational movement. The meaning and purpose of existence for biological forms with a mind is explainable in two stages, first there is the meaning, intention, aim and design of biological forms with a mind as a whole and then there is the meaning, intention, aim and design of the particular individual biological form with a mind. It can be said that meaning and purpose is when something is designed to do "something" due to the inevitable processes that have preceded it, biological life for instance and what it is designed to do, one can say, are its intentions, aims and designs that spring from its will. The most basic meanings that biological forms with a mind can find in this world is the desire to survive and secondary to this is the pleasure principle, which is the desire for pleasure and happiness and thirdly is the avoidance of pain principle which entails the desire to avoid pain and discomfort. The desire to survive, seek pleasure and avoid pain can be considered as a "will to life" and is only incidental to the fact that we have bodies, our thoughts, emotions and feelings are more fundamental aspects of our character and therefore the desire to create in all shapes and forms must be an additional meaning found in our lives. If the biological life forms with a mind that I have mentioned already are to prosper as well as advance and grow they would need conflict and struggle as well as a need for comfort and security. The development of a mind in biological forms of life is an inborn germ of realization of possibilities inherent within the processes in molecules and genes which occurs and develops unconsciously and then becomes more conscious over time, this process is intentionally willed in a gradual way by organisms only after a period of mechanical and automatic processes which came about due to the natural movement inherent in energy (matter) and its processes generally. The meaning or purpose of our lives that people are always talking about as well as whether our existence has any value or aim is merely up to us, because we have to create additional meaning in the sense of filling our time with purpose, humans are basically purposive organisms. There is not anything special about biological life or human beings, the only thing special about human beings is their desire to evolve, advance, progress as well as their desire to figure out reality and the universe, so whatever additional meaning or purpose beyond the neccessary one's that their is for us as humans comes from this sense of purposiveness that we all create because of the fact that we already exist. Human beings are just a by-product of the inevitable processes of energy when it creates galaxies, solar systems and planets and these processes are harmonious, progressive and are continually refining themselves. Anything that leads to progress has meaning or you could also say that anything that has meaning is progressive and leads somewhere forwards and onwards towards a more advanced state and anything in nature that was designed to do this has meaning also, because it is serving its purpose. Humans are a purposive animal, they are at their best and most contented when they are driven by a purpose, this purpose can change from time to time, but it is usually present, this current purpose is important otherwise they feel that their existence is strange, paradoxical and futile and as I have explained before, purpose is when something is designed to do something. Adaptation is a natural outcome of the survival , pleasure and avoidance of pain principles that exist, adaptation also makes the biological life form feel a desire to progress and seek harmony, these are natural inclinations for its sense of purpose.
The amount of meaning or purpose that exists for each individual is relative to their situation or abilities, for instance, life will have less meaning for a retarded or spastic person in comparison to an intelligent, able or successful person. Ultimately all meaning and purpose for human beings comes from their thoughts, intentions, desires, needs and ideals which are progressive and beneficial to humanity at large.
Any theory of meaning should be be equivalent to a science of human needs, desires, ambitions, intentions and ideals and so on... This "science of meaning" for humans should account for the intentionality that exists within us as well as in how it expresses itself in its different ways or manifestations. This science of meaning should be progressive and it should be able to account for all human possibilities; the theories of this science should enable humans to advance and progress quicker and adapt to more complicated scenarios that will exist in the grand international civilization of the future. A science of meaning for human beings is important because humans are the most complicated objects of activity in the known universe, but yet they are finite and so therefore can be analyzed up to a certain degree of accuracy; as humans we have to house manifold desires and needs without contradicting ourselves, we also have to prevent ourselves from becoming neurotic or repressed. A thorough knowledge of meaning and purpose for humans can only come from a scientific knowledge that studies psychology and human behaviour, we know that it is philosophical and scientific knowledge that can explain the concept of meaning and purpose itself and how it came about as well as in how it makes us progress as organisms. Also meaning cannot come from religion either, human meaning and not universal meaning is concerned with the biological organism and therefore involves all of its behaviour, human meaning involves behaviour that is empirical, real, possible, life affirming, progressive and actual, it can only be truly understood by induction. The human organism and its behaviour is partly mechanistic and partly autonomous, this is why great feats of endurance or starvation can be endured as well as a lot of pain can be endured also by an organism with a tough and strong mind and this is because the mind which is housed in the body can produce an autonomous and controlling affect on the rest of the body and this is what is known by people as mind over matter or the mind/body dualism, the more the mind and body are in tune with each other the more mechanistic will be the behaviour of the organism, whereas people who think a lot and are slightly out of touch with their bodies and their surroundings are more likely to be autonomous as an organism insofar as how their minds control their actions. As I have mentioned earlier; most people in the world need meaning and purpose in their lives and so if a person finds meaning and purpose in a life of philosophizing or then again maybe in a life of politics then all the good for them! Whether a person chooses to become an athlete or an astronaut and spend their days pursuing these things day after day then it must be pointed out that this is all for the best to them and this should be the response of all the positive and free thinking people of the world. "Emotions" can be considered to be just as rational as the "faculty of reason" and this is only because all processes in the universe are "ultimately rational in nature" and occur for a reason including the emotions. Emotions in general are a combination of the chemicals in our bodies as well as a type of imagination that is concerned with adaptation and the changes in or lives and also the motives that we have which are based on and caused by the pleasure principle and also the avoidance of pain principle and also concerns parts of the brain and its electrical activity. All of the events and circumstances that occur in reality including wars, peaceful organizations, political movements and social situations and events and all the other day to day situations both great and small as well all other human behaviour generally can be found to have meaning and purpose, because all behaviour and processes in nature can be found to have meaning and purpose if traced back and analyzed fully and thoroughly. Meaning itself cannot exist without meaninglessness and many people make the mistake of thinking that life either has meaning or it does not. Now one thing cannot exist without the other and meaning is an indication of how much processes in nature are progressive and lead towards the good and the constructive, whereas nature also has a lot of meaninglessness as well in the sense of suffering and unfulfilled processes. Now how much one is either able to live a happy constructive life or either sufferers at the hands of fate will be an indicator of how much meaning or lack of it one endures. I must point out that there is no underlying meaning or purpose to reality or processes generally and that any meaning that can be found at all exists only in the results of processes and how they function as well as in the meaning that we create; this may seem like a trivial and unnecessary set of meanings to some people who are used to thinking that there is no meaning at all in things prior to the meaning that they create themselves, but as a logical proposition it holds firm and is a valid observation of a truth. Also most people will agree that there is no ultimate meaning to life either because we as organic life simply arise and evolution and progress do not lead anywhere in the ultimate sense. In general our existence has no more meaning than what it represents to others, what we represent has its own value for whoever values it, apart from this and what we do with it, it has no meaning. Whether people value what we represent or not, does not really matter. Being who you are is what counts, people either value you or they do not, only people and other organisms can value things in any way that counts. There were thinkers like Sartre, who believed that reality was fundamentally meaningless; that no meaning could be found in it, unless through a highly conscious choice on our part. There was also Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who claimed that reality was impregnated with meaning, and that meaning could be found everywhere. The reality concerning meaning, is that it can be found naturally, but yet is not found everywhere at all times. A good example, of how meaning is experienced, can be observed in children; for children, meaning is experienced naturally, and they experience it spontaneously, without too much conscious decision on their part, they either feel it for something, or they do not. It is mostly when we become adults that we begin to doubt that any things have any meaning, and this is because our minds are more fed up and bored with the familiar things that we always encounter regularly. Now when we really think about it, apart from procreation, the main purpose of organic life seems to be a sort of  process in which organisms become gradually more aware and conscious of themselves, and their surroundings, as well as in a need to thrive. It is as if this process is occurring naturally all the time anyway in organic life, but instead we make up other purposes, or erroneously claim there is no purpose of any kind.