question 5 of six · an open board
What is the meaning of life?
Given everything the other five questions surface — what, if anything, is it for?
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This is the one question science alone can't close, which is exactly why it belongs here rather than nowhere. Is meaning discovered or constructed? Can a purely physical universe contain the real thing, or only the felt sense of it? We hold it to the same honesty as the other five — arguments and lived reasons welcome, certainty we don't have left at the door.
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