Why do we have an urge to find the meaning of life?

Originally posted by Sado22

~Sado

so, from page one (admittedly it was Kosta who gave the initial definition):

Originally posted by Kosta
Any instance where a person may perceive or recognize an inconsistency in their thoughts/cognition. Like holding two contradictory ideas at the same time. The actual theory implies that people try to minimize dissonance by justifying their thoughts or ideas, or even changing them altogether.

Originally posted by inimalist
also, there is evidence that simply being in a situation that in ambiguous, or where you have little control, can cause a dissonance type state. The unknown, then, can work much like 2 opposing ideas.

also, note that Phantom Zone is not asking what cog dis is, he is asking about its reliability as a phenomenon.

lol, and don't worry, I'm chill like a cucumber

okay, glad that's out of the way 🙂

Originally posted by lord xyz
It is even necessary? For if we were created with meaning, surely we weren't made to know. Or is there meaning at all? Or is us finding meaning the by product of some psychological thing?

I think it's the same reason we seek to know anything is simply apart of the human need for conquest. As for whether or not we are meant to know, the more obvious question, in my mind, is why were we built to question?