what life looks like from the perspective of something that has never lived. From that outside, experience-less viewpoint, evolution just looks like a random process with no meaning. But when we look from inside life — from the perspective of beings that feel and experience — things matter. Even a suffering animal continues to live and struggle, showing that life is experienced as worth holding onto. Meaning does not appear in abstract, third-person descriptions of the world; it arises within experience itself. Therefore, what gives life meaning is not an external purpose, but the simple fact that there is something it is like to be alive. And, ironically, the very beings capable of asking whether life has meaning are themselves the clearest proof that it does.
