Asking for the meaning of life is a category error. Meanings are properties of symbols - and life, as far as we know, is not a symbol. So asking for its meaning is like asking for the taste of starlight. To vainly chase the sun's flavor is to ignore the majesty of its radiance.
And exactly the same answer can be used for "purpose of existence". It too is a category error for precisely the same reason. See my other responses in this thread for further information.
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more like the same misapplication of semiotics. the fact that language is inadequate to an existential question does not make the question unanswerable
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The question is not just unanswerable, but nonsensical. "Meaning of life" presumes life is a symbol. "Purpose of existence" presumes existence has a design. They're the wrong questions.
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