• Question: What is the meaning of life?

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      Asked by Bob to Aoife, Brian, Conor, Louise, Matthew on 7 Nov 2016.
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        Aoife Lucid answered on 7 Nov 2016:

        What a deep question to begin with!
        My personal opinion is that the meaning of life is to try to do what makes you most happy and if at the same time you can do something that makes the world a slightly better place then you’re doing pretty well.

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        Louise Mc Grath answered on 7 Nov 2016:

        Hey Bob!

        Well if you were to ask Siri, she would say the meaning of life is chocolate… I can’t say that that is not a bad answer! For me the meaning of life is enjoying every day, and doing something new and exciting. If you can be happy then that’s fantastic. Use that happiness to make others happy and eventually everyone will be happy! Just live life with no regrets.. oh and try out some cool crazy science experiments too.. 😉

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        Matthew Kitching answered on 9 Nov 2016:

        Hi Bob

        42!

        No – I’m joking. Hmmmmm whats a sciency answer to this? Well – evolution is basically driven by mistakes. Every time a new generation is born, its DNA (the information that codes for how the cells work) is copied, some from the mom and some from the dad. But when its copied, every now and then, a mistake is made. This might sound like a bad thing, but these mistakes mean that every generation is different. Nature selects for the best ones, and the process repeats. These little errors make all of the wonderful diversity in life we see, and how amazing life is.

        So I guess if life has a meaning is that making mistakes is a good thing – we should make lots of them, we should learn from them, and we should pass on what we’ve learnt to the next generation!

        At least thats why I’m trying (probably badly lol) to do with mine.

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