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‘What is the Meaning of Life?’

‘I think therefore I am’

‘Cogito ergo sum’…Descartes’

‘I exist for as long as I am thinking’

‘if I cease to think I cease to exist’

But if i exist only in my thoughts

can my thoughts exist without ‘me’?

if knowledge/intuit is received through DNA?

is conscious mind a creation of this life?

As nature/nurture influences conscious mind

compare to implicit subconscious ‘knowledge’?;

the wisdom of our antecedents passed on

at the time ‘our’ egg and sperm was formed?

If intuit is passed on through DNA then

how was the wisdom of each forebear combined

‘switched on’, ‘switched off’, accepted, rejected

by this new mind?, brain?, thought-stream?

What influence then has each belief construct,

each organized religion, church, or faith

had on the freeing, or, the capture of our

mind, brain, thought-stream, soul?

What then is the meaning of (our) life

is this our life ‘it’ for us?

or is our purpose to (imperceptibly?)

mould our thread of DNA passed on?

If the sum total of human ‘knowledge’

would take some thirty thousand intellects

to store, then of the whole how much will each

ever understand, more than a tiny fraction?

or is each ‘individual’ intellect simply

a part of a great collective Gaia intuit;

much as each of trillions of microbes

support each body/intellect/thought-stream

our part in life’s great cyclic ebb and flow?

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