There is no purposeless individual

Because all information processing has a purpose, there is no human who does not have a purpose—an objectiveless, purposeless individual does not exist. This is of course true of any Being—the difference with humans (and all other animals) being that, because they have no specific purpose in life but many (unsatisfiable) needs, they choose the purpose(s) of their information processing each time (with this choice being a matter of morality). These purposes can be anything, are different for each individual and can even change many times during that individual’s lifetime. It may be that a particular purpose is not really chosen but selected as a result of external influence or even imposed upon the individual. Various circumstances may lead to such purpose designation. The achievement of such a purpose may or may not also be possible for that particular individual (with each human being unique). The uniquely human need, however, to augment their information processing means that the setting of a new purpose for each human never stops.

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