Letters to the Editor
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The limitations imposed by evolution
I liked that he brought this up, the limitations necessarily imposed on us humans, a result of the strategies that got us from clever monkeys to clever talking monkeys with computers and telescopes. The ability to discern cause and effect is certainly useful for surviving here on earth, but in a universe where time is symmetrical and there is no law of physics that differentiates between past and present, it may be a hindrance--and there's not much we can do about that just now.
We're talking monkeys. We have the capacity to self-reflect and ask whether there's meaning to life. We have the capacity to invent meaning and purpose and assign them to our lives, and then to the universe. Hey, why not? Just cause humans, those miraculous talking monkeys, made it all up, doesn't make it any less meaningful.