I saw this question today.

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the result of a bunch of processes that we understand through what scientists have discovered

" Why do humans exist? "
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Good question .
Do you want the truth ? lol,
or,
well anyway reproduction seems to have a role in your equation or question as two souls or ,you know lol , and then comes baby and it seems the parents want this new life to exist .
So one reason is that people want babies allowing us humans to continue in our existance role to stay alive individually and collectively as seen by our ancesters keeping the " human strain" alive .

The reason also is seen everytime you look anywhere and see or feel the great beauty on Earth and if we didn't exist meaning in this case all life not existing would eliminate the beauty here on Earth as the life as flowers would be gone but the bare mountains although still being there without any life at all to acknowledge it , then in concept it does not exist .

So we must stay alive in the whole picture and our role is to exist to continue life .

Some will say that God made us, and some will say a huge accident, and some will say evolution... Honestly, I don't know why, I am just glad to be here.

We exist for one reason: to survive. It's all about survival.

or so this is what I have always thought. Not too sure why I think this or where I got the idea. I just feel like God holds our company in high regards. I mean look at me. I am not the most spiritual or obediant or even the most holy minded person, and yet God seeks me out. He must want our company, and not just any of ours the ones who have truely shown partiality and true love for him in their hearts.

Maybe we exist to ask why?... and in the asking we learn who we are.

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That was beautiful - thanks

I don't think the question is a valid one. Certainly it is well-formed, grammatically and syntactically correct, and all that, but it is not a valid question in the same way that "how heavy is Thursday?" is not a valid question.

There are endless answers to the question, all of them external to you or me, and almost every possible answer is merely causal (which means that they will be extremely unsatisfying, because that doesn't seem to be what we're really asking when we ask, "Why am I here?").

“Because my parents had sex.” “Because Canada paid a ‘baby bonus’.” “Because DNA insists on its own replication.” These are all answers to the question, but don't satisfy. Nothing in those answers provides me with any meaning. There is nothing there to give my existence significance. Even less elevating is the notion that I am nothing more than the end of a long, completely natural and completely arbitrary process. Whoopee for me!

But perhaps, just perhaps, that is all that it is. Perhaps, and this is what I believe, there really no purpose or meaning to my existence? What “meaning” can arise from a cosmic accident, or from a long chain of natural, random events? These, too, answer the “why am I here question” in a merely causal sense, but not in a purposive way and thus never satisfy.

But that is likely to be the only answer that we can find to the question. And if that's the case, then the question isn't valid.

A better question might be, "Now that I'm here, what purpose can I find for my life?"

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To put it simply,we exist to experience. This theory applies for all living entities.

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"There is one thing that organized religion is not qualified to teach and that is an individual's purpose."-GOD