The inevitability of things is knowledge, and exploring the meaning of things is wisdom. Knowledge is absolute and definite, but wisdom never has a standard answer and never ends.
In this world, knowledge is not scarce, or even unique to humans. For example, chameleons disguise themselves to avoid danger, frogs catch insects at rest, these are all knowledge, but they don't have the concept of knowledge.
What is truly scarce is wisdom, such as questioning the meaning of an event, which is typical wisdom. When we are questioning the meaning of something, we actually enter the realm of teleology, which is the opposite of seemingly unbreakable determinism.
Determinism refers to the fact that all things in the world, including humans and their behavior, are determined by some antecedents. If we fully grasp these antecedents, we can accurately predict the future outcomes and directions of all things. But the problem is that we cannot fully grasp these antecedents, and it is absolutely impossible. So the drawback of determinism is exposed: it is theoretically valid, but in reality, it is absolutely impossible to occur.
Although determinism has its drawbacks, it is not contradictory because even if we cannot grasp those antecedents, they are real. So everything has its inevitable outcome and direction, but because we cannot obtain these pre factors, we cannot grasp them.
On the other hand, teleology is the opposite of determinism: when we are questioning the meaning and purpose of something, we are actually trying to change the outcome and direction of something, trying to make it move in the direction we hope for. But according to the above inference, due to the lack of antecedents, this attempt to change the outcome of something is absolutely impossible to achieve.
But this does not prove that teleology does not hold, because when we try to change the outcome of something, we are already injecting additional energy based on our own will to intervene in the inevitability of something.
For example, an example often mentioned by determinists is a stone located on a mountaintop, which has potential energy inside it that can lurk for hundreds or thousands of years. But once it is pushed by external forces and exceeds the critical point, the stone will roll down the slope. If we can accurately grasp the friction coefficient of the shrubs, branches, and ground it will encounter, as well as the angle and humidity of the mountain slope, we can accurately predict the rolling speed and destination of this stone.
But if someone tries to push this stone to kill a tiger chasing him at the foot of the mountain, then this clearly subjective behavior will interfere with the original rolling time, speed, and final position of the stone rolling down the mountain. At this point, the inevitability will be broken within a relative range.
Why say relative range? Because determinism is still valid at this point, there are also a series of antecedents behind the person pushing the stone to smash the tiger, such as the inevitability of the birth of life, the inevitable phenomenon of physical competition after the birth of life, and so on.
Although the active purposiveness at this point is still limited by determinism, you cannot say that it does not exist. Just like a circular ring, although the inner circle is contained by the outer circle, the inner circle is complete and self consistent. And the outer circle is also the inner circle of another outer circle, which can infer the infinity of the universe. In infinity, everything is possible, and all necessary things can ultimately be expressed as complete contingency. So, subjective purposiveness and objective inevitability are intertwined and intertwined, just like existence and non existence, existence and non existence, they are interdependent and not an absolute unity.
So, when we are questioning the purpose of something, its essence is to discover relative possibilities in necessity, which is evidence of the existence of wisdom and free will.
The reason why this universe had a Big Bang and was able to evolve such a grand and magnificent landscape is because it not only has inevitability, but also possibility. Otherwise, everything should be single, static, rather than rich and moving. It can be inferred from this that the universe also has its own will and wisdom, and the universe is exploring its own possibilities, but limited to cognition, we still cannot understand its principles.
The meaning of life depends on individual experiences, and the meaning of the universe can only be answered by the universe itself.
