Atla wrote
The question is why are WE here. That probably has nothing to do with value, what kind of rubbish is that? 'Value' is just a human psychological phenomenon, entirely insignificant in the grand scheme.
The hard part is getting you to take serious things seriously. Put aside phenomenology, and look at things from a more familiar pov.
One has to look at the matter as it stands before you, and put aside assumptions that pull you away. Value
is a human psychological phenomenon, but climb down to the next level, if you want to keep a physicist's terminology, and you have atoms, quarks and other subatomic events, and here, at the level of particle physics, science will tend to say you are at the resting place of meaningful explanations when it comes to talking in foundational terms about what things are. So when we talk of that small, unregarded blue planet, events are significant beyond the local. They are "what the universe (or, existence, being, reality; choose your poison) does" over there. Usually, we are concerned with the here's and there's of things because we have a practical purpose in mind, but the assumptions we have about their basic physics issue from a body of general views, that is, views that rest with inductive arguments grounded in observations we make of the world that are confirmed through our telescopes and microscopes and other data enhancing equipment.
What catches the attention of the empirical scientist is the anomaly, what breaks with working paradigms. thus, if we observe something in a galaxy far, far away in our, say, spectral analyses of star light, that indicates something novel at the level of basic assumptions is happening, we become very interested. After all, science is not made of what the world IS, it is made of assumptions about the way the world is. The "is" of the world is carried to us through our language and conceptualizations, and truth and reality is made of this. (It is irresistible to point out that this makes logic and language ground zero for observations, and what seems like insignificant blue planet events becomes the very center all all things. The "over there" and over here" are just our way of splitting up eternity into manageable parts.) The point I am making is that it is very easy to dismiss claims about the grand scheme of things rising above the insignificant affairs here on Earth. We ARE the grand scheme of things simply because our events are the "grand scheme's" events and whatever occurs here is just as telling as to the nature of the universe as anything else we might witness. If in the galaxy far, far away, we noticed a gravitational event and there was no explaining why things were moving as they were, all eyes would be there. And if, after exhaustive observation and theorizing, the event remained the unexplained, then: paradigm shift in basic science, a very big deal.
So, what has this to do with value? Value and meaning is the anomaly. Physics ignores this because it takes this as irrelevant to its paradigms. It is the assumption of science that one day, physics will be able to "explain" value and human experience as science's paradigms are endlessly expanding, but for now, it is silent, for it cannot make the emergent quality/physics connection, of, respectively, value (our ouches and yums, and horrors and blisses) and material.
The trouble this creates for our thinking is that we take science to be the be all andn end all, and since science is unable to speak here, it presents the tacit determination that value has no significant place in serious, hard science thinking. This is blatantly not the case. It is a deficit in science that creates a prejudicial regard that makes what stands before us in perfect clarity an obscure and unimportant affair. But the human drama is precisely the opposite of this.
Now, this argument is not to be trifled with, and summarily declaring it all rubbish will convince me I am talking to a person of very limited resources. It requires analysis. Take a serious look and tell me what you think of it parts, its logical moves, the claims it makes and so on.