{"id":2636,"date":"2003-01-25T12:05:17","date_gmt":"2003-01-25T06:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/25\/the-answer-is-42\/"},"modified":"2003-01-25T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2003-01-25T06:35:17","slug":"the-answer-is-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/the-answer-is-42\/","title":{"rendered":"The answer is 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font size = -1>Montefiore declared that without God all human life would be meaningless. Ayer countered that humans alone imbue their lives with meaning. &#8220;But then life would have no ultimate meaning,&#8221; objected the bishop. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what ultimate meaning means!&#8221; cried Ayer. His objection, of course, is that such concepts as meaning, purpose and having a point are human categories that make good sense in the context of human society, but are, at best, metaphors when applied to non-living systems.<\/font><\/cite>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/online\/science\/story\/0,12450,879894,00.html\" class=\"source\">Is the Universe Doomed? &#8211; Guardian<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>An interesting discussion on whether the Universe is actually chaotic or whether it has a purpose behind it, and whether the question of complexity makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montefiore declared that without God all human life would be meaningless. Ayer countered that humans alone imbue their lives with meaning. &#8220;But then life would have no ultimate meaning,&#8221; objected the bishop. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what ultimate meaning means!&#8221; cried Ayer. His objection, of course, is that such concepts as meaning, purpose and having a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}