UncleJim

It has been said that the universe has always existed. The universe is said to consist of matter and energy and there is no evidence that these are substantially different. Since the universe has always existed the matter and energy of the universe has likewise always existed. This fact demands that the naturally occurring relationships existing within and between matter and energy have likewise always existed The physical universe is described by the word – reality: The non-physical universe is described by the word – imaginary. The relationships existing naturally within and between real physical things are referred to as being the naturally occurring phenomenon of reality. Philosophically these relationships are studied by the science of metaphysics. Real things can relate with one another only in ways allowed by their identities. Some of these relationships have been discovered and others remain yet to be discovered. Some of these relationships don't result in change. Some relationships are of an electro-chemical nature. Others of these are self-sustaining (that is they attract the energy resources from the universe necessary for their electro-chemical relationships to continue). And still other electro-chemical relationships generate by-products that are retained by and within that relationship and upon which it grows and expands. The first is inert nature; the second includes all chemical reactions; the third (which is the inclusion of a magnetic or a gravitational subsystem with the second) describes a “living” chemical process and the last defines a “living-thing.” Those types of “living” chemical processes which comprise “living-things” are of such significance that they have been assigned the word life to gather more information about them. Within those relationships described by the word life are associated electro-chemical relationships which are specific to and exist only within this group. One of these is called "mind." Mind is a relational term describing the functioning of a specific kind of electro-chemical activity found only within the physical human brain. Life is a naturally occurring aspect of the universe and like the universe has always existed. Life describes a specific kind of naturally occurring eternally existing electro-chemical process taking place within the universe between matter and the energy. This is often referred to as the life processes that are going on within earth bound living-beings. Life is innate action and this compels its “living” possessor to enact specific acts of self-preservation in its life’s benefit. But within the universe the processes of life may be described by additional factors. 1. Life describes a self-sustaining process. Life attracts the energy resources from nature necessary for its continued existence. 2. Life describes a consumption process. Life consumes the energy resources it has attracted from nature. 3. Life describes a conversion process. Life converts these energy resources from nature into the body of the relationship (the “living-thing”) within which it is functioning. 4. Life describes a self-generation process. Life reincarnates itself by causing its possessor (the “living-thing”) to perform some type of procreation. Humans have physical and intellectual components that must be in harmony and functioning “normally” if they are going to survive. Like plants humans sense reality. Unlike plants humans must make judgments about what they are sensing. These judgments must be accurate; they must correspond with what reality is if man’s goal is survival – and it is. When a human volitionally applies his mind to the task of interrogating reality by applying reasoned logic to it he will discover two fundamentally different things about what the nature of reality is: 1) things live and 2) things that don't live. Things that live possess an additional distinguishing characteristic which things that don't live lack. Humans hold as a fact that this characteristic is the fundamental distinguishing characteristic of the physical universe. Humans comprehend since they are identified as a living-thing they then possess this additional distinguishing characteristic. This additional distinguishing characteristic is of such significance to both the fact of their living existence and the requirements of its continued existence that it has been assigned the word life in-order to gather more information about it. Since life does exist as the first observed difference of the physical universe: And since all things of the universe are explained by whatever substance the universe actually consists of: And since; at the fundamental level, the substance of the universe is explained by whatever matter and energy and their electro-chemical relationships are: Then matter and energy and their electro-chemical relationships (at some specific point) explain what life is. Humans must achieve the values their life processes require or these will cease functioning and its human host will die; forever. This requires that humans think about what value is in-order to discover what their life processes require for their continued eternal survival. Metaphysically: Life is the fundamental distinguishing characteristic in the real universe. Epistemologically: Value is its intellectual incarnation. Value is the mental integration of what life’s continued existence means to a living-things continued existence. Life is metaphysical fact; Value is its epistemological fact. The fact that life exists physically creates the fact that value exists intellectually. Life and value are one and the same. Value is a dependent concept. Value is identifiable only by the fact that life exists. Value is dependent on life for its proper identification. Life is an end in itself; life describes what life is and requires. Life requires itself in-order to continue existing. The requirements of life are the values necessary for its continued existence. Here since the first requirement of life is its own continued existence; then, its-self is its supreme-value. Contrarily: If life is not the supreme in values this means that it does not serve ones purpose to act for the continued existence of ones own life. This being the case the life processes going on within oneself will fail and one will die. Life requires that the electro-chemical processes it describes continue functioning. In the universe these are naturally occurring process; they will continue to occur as long as there is matter and energy. However within a living-being its life processes are “dependent” processes. The processes described by life going on within living-beings are dependent on that being’s “proper actions.” And these are determined by the energy resources necessary to keep that being’s life processes functioning. This is the principle of causality - The goal determines the actions necessary for its achievement. The identity of the actor determines what acts he is able to perform. If an actor’s identity does not enable him to perform the actions required for the achievement of a particular goal; that goal will remain unachieved by that actor. Helping other lives to achieve their goal of continued survival is not a necessity in-order for your life to achieve that same goal. The primary goal of your life’s electro-chemical processes is not the survival of another’s life processes; it is the survival of its own life processes. This is not to say that cooperating with another to mutual benefit is wrong. As a matter of fact mutually beneficial acts are good and proper human acts and ought to be undertaken; but only when a mutual benefit actually does exist. Life is an absolute. This means that life is not; it cannot be considered to be, what it is not. Life can only be what it is. Aristotle put it this way: A=A. Meaning that life is (can only be) true to what its identity is - in-fact. This defines what a true thing is. When we say a thing is true we are saying that it is always what it is in relation to what physical reality is; it is a fact of reality. Statements about what is true about reality are called truths; or true statements about what is real; i.e., about what is factual. These are factual statements. Since life is absolute; purpose, meaning and value (when properly defined) are absolutely true. Since life is defined as a naturally occurring and eternally existing phenomenon of the physical universe; this says that it is not proper to re-define life as being or having purpose, meaning or value. It is only proper to say that these exist by the result of the fact that life does exist. Since your life exists: purpose, meaning and value result from that fact. You’re life’s existence validates that purpose, meaning and value exist in-fact. All that reminds is for you to "properly" define these. I differentiate a living-thing from a living-being by the word biological. In each case life remains a naturally occurring eternally existing aspect of the physical universe. In the case of a living-thing its life is not dependent on the physical characteristics of its living-thing. In the case of living-beings its life is dependent on the physical characteristics of its living-being. Living-things are not “biological” in their nature; they are only electro-chemical in nature. Again: The means of survival for the life of living-things is not dependent on the physical characteristics of its living-thing. The life of a living-thing directly attracts the energy resources from nature required for its electro-chemical processes to continue functioning. It is required that living-things possess some type of gravitational sub-system by which the energy resources attracted by it benefit its life processes. These energy resources are converted by the processes of life into the structure (the body) of the living-thing within which they are functioning and upon which it grows and expands. Living-beings are "biological" in their nature. The means of survival for the life of living-beings is dependent on the physical characteristics of the living-being. The life of a living-being depends on the "proper" or "moral" action (the virtuous acts) of the living-being for the energy resources required by and for its electro-chemical processes. It is said that a living-being must seek and acquire the energy resources from nature its life processes require. The gravitational sub-system possessed by living-things has evolved into the “energy-resource sensing system” which living-beings possess and to which they respond in-order to supply their life processes with the energy resources they require. You’re living-being evolved from the naturally occurring eternally existing electro-chemical relationships between the matter and the energy of the universe which holds the definition of what a “living-thing” is. In the universe life's continued existence is an absolute; it will always exist. However; within your body life’s existence is dependent upon you (its host) to act properly with respect to it. Meaning you must supply your life processes with the values necessary for their continued functioning. This fact identifies what proper human action is. It is proper for a human being to act to the benefit of the continued eternal functioning of his own life processes. You either live in accordance to what your life processes require or they will stop functioning and you will die. Biological living-beings evolved directly from chemical living-things which evolved directly from life’s processes. However the natural resources required for the continued eternal functioning of life’s electro-chemical processes remains unaltered (life is an absolute). The idea of what a living-thing is must necessarily include the phrase "as it exists wherever it is found within the entire physical universe" if that idea is to be an accurate identification of “that which possess life.” If this living-thing has evolved into a biological-being in the sense of what we call plants and animals here on earth then we must additionally specify that we are referencing living-things as being only those possessing life’s electro-chemical processes “here on earth.” For this is the extent of our current knowledge of what biological-beings or living-beings are. Visit any graveyard. Every person buried there did previously possess life or they would not be there. Death (the loss of life) cannot be discussed absent the life which it references. The definition of what life is within reality describes a naturally occurring eternally existing electro-chemical phenomenon of the physical universe. Meaning that life has always existed in the universe and will always continue to exist; it is not only possible to speak of life apart from death it is proper to do so. Now notice this very important fact: All biological-beings eventually die. What then does the concept of “proper” mean relative to this fact? Since it is a fact that every living-being here on earth will eventually die does this say that these beings are not (cannot be considered to be) a “proper host” for life? Absolutely not! Why? It’s because of the principle of “proper action.” What does the principle of “proper action” say? Proper action is any action that; by the laws of their nature, results in preserving the electro-chemical processes of life. Every living-thing of the universe (which includes human beings) exists still by result of the principle of “proper action.” In each instance where a specific type of growing and expanding electro-chemical process exists; those processes are defined as the life of a living-thing. Living-things are able to continue to exist simply because they possess some type of a naturally functioning gravitational sub-system which does attract the energy resources required for the continued survival of their life’s electro-chemical processes. This establishes the principle of “proper action.” Proper action is defined as the actions of survival under taken by the processes of life which results in its continued eternal survival. And this identifies what the “laws of nature” are. The principles of “Proper Action” are determined by life’s naturally occurring eternally existing electro-chemical processes: The principles of “The Laws of Nature” are determined by the physical characteristics of life’s host. Again: The living-things life processes determine what is “proper” and it’s physical characteristics determine what is “natural.” Proper actions will continue to be defined by life as long as matter and energy continue to act in accordance to their identity; and they always will. This says that the Laws of Nature are discovered by observing a thing’s naturally existing survival functions as these are determined by its identity. Each living-thing’s identity determines what the laws of nature governing its continued eternal existence are. In each instance where life’s electro-chemical processes are occurring within a biological-host this necessitates the identification of “additional” Laws of Nature if those life processes are to continue functioning for the remainder of eternity. This means that since biological-hosts do eventually die they must successfully perform some type of self-reincarnation by some form of procreation prior to their death or; upon their death, their life processes will vanish; forever. Upon death the chemical by-products produced by life’s electro-chemical processes will remain but the life processes which produced them will stop functioning. Therefore: Living-beings do not depend on life’s electro-chemical processes for their continued existence: Life’s processes depend on their living-being’s proper actions for their continued functioning. Therefore self-reincarnation by procreation is an additional required “law of nature” existing naturally within all living-beings on this earth and wherever else biological-beings may occur in the entire “living” universe. The life processes of a biological-being can be saved only when that living-being successfully creates another or an additional biological-being directly from the living materials of its body. This is the derivation of the word offspring; living-beings spring-off (or produce) additional living-beings from their physical existence. Human offspring result by and from the principle of “proper action” as it is applied to human existence. Human offspring are a naturally occurring phenomenon resulting from the joining together of two biological-beings; an egg and a sperm. And; like all physical things, sperm and egg are composed of the matter and energy of the physical universe. Thus human offspring are responsible for the definition of: purpose, meaning and value by demonstrating that a continuous physical living relationship exists between human offspring and the naturally occurring eternal existing electro-chemical relationships of the universe which are identified by the word - life. Off-spring are the means by which man first achieves happiness and then preserves his life for the remainder of eternity.