Jayson asked:

What does it mean to "be"? And what "am" I/ Why am I in the human condition?

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"To be or not to be" is, of course, a quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet and a question about whether
to live or die. Strictly philosophically, "to be" does not mean to be alive or dead since one can still "be"
in the mind of others after death. So questions are raised about the nature of the mind, of
intentionality.

As to the "meaning of life", this doesn't make sense. Meaning is something words have and the
essential meaning of life is biological. You can ask if there is a point to life but I don't know the
answer. I do think, though, that it would horrible if there were a point to life: We might miss it! But if
there is a point to life, it has got to be here and now, and not be a point to an afterlife.

What is man to the universe? A speck. Rather, what is the universe to man. It is magnificence and
infinity, bringing a sense of smallness, humility, irrelevance and proportion to the ultimate triviality of
one human life in the vast scheme of things.

Rachel Browne