On Purpose and Meaning

The theory of multiple universes contends that if an infinite number of universes exist, then it becomes inevitable that one of those universes would be so fine-tuned that life would evolve and eventually become intelligent and creative life. That universe is our universe. The only purpose of all the other universes would be to ensure that the universe of life would come into being. In addition, the anthropic principle would ensure that our universe, as a whole, would possess the values, meanings, and purposes that intelligent and creative life would attach to it. Also, intelligent life can understand that the purpose of all the other universes was to ensure the existence of the life universe and that all those other universes would have no purpose if they never produced the life universe. In other words, all those other universes could have no purpose unless it became a known purpose to an intelligent consciousness. The only way that all of those other universes could acquire purpose would be if they ensured the existence of intelligent life who would be able to recognize that they had that purpose. So much for the philosophy that the universe and life have no meaning or purpose. 

Nevertheless, those who believe that the universe and life have no meaning adds that value to the universe, whether that belief is true or false. Similarly, those who believe in God add all of His values to the universe whether He exists or not. The point is that creative intelligence, by its very nature, cannot avoid attaching purpose and meaning to everything that it experiences, even if that absolute purpose and meaning is that it has no purpose or meaning. 

All of this means that purpose, meaning, and values cannot be detached from an intelligent and creative consciousness. Our universe happens to be governed by a set of fine-tuned mathematical and physical rules and laws. Such rules and laws could not exist unless an Intelligent Consciousness has a purpose and a meaning for them.  Intelligent finite and creative life could not exist without an extremely complex set of chemical and electrical interactions. Only an Infinite Intelligent Consciousness could have created this intelligent life with a meaning and with a purpose for every individual life. Complex systems that produce creative results cannot exist without meaning and purpose.