There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It’s not there just somehow by chance.
Some people take the view that the universe is simply there and it runs along
it’s a bit as though it just sort of computes,
and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing.
I don’t think that’s a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe,
I think that there is something much deeper about it,
about its existence,
which we have very little inkling of at the moment.
—Roger Penrose
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