"Indeed so, which is why I said it was slightly misleading, because it implied that only Humans can seek their own purpose, which is actually a trend more than a set fact. But of course, there is purpose and there is purpose, isn't there, as we discussed earlier.
"In any case. This difference in creation leads to a difference in the very root of thinking. For Humans, what is the most fundamental philsophical question, the one that all others spring from?"
"Indeed so. Why am I here? Even the caveman could so wonder. He saw the environment around him and he saw that it all had some sort of value. The sun gave warmth, but the night gave time to rest. Food was for eating and water was for drinking. Caves were for shelter. Stones could be made into tools or weapons. Fingers were for grasping, legs for walking. Friends were for companionship and survival. Everything there in the world, he could break it into one of three things. It had obvious purpose, like his legs. He could give it purpose, like a stone tool. Or it was completely useless.
"But sooner or later, the caveman would turn this view upon himself. All these things had, or could be given, a purpose. So... what was his purpose? And, worryingly, was he completely useless? And so, someone asked for the first time, Why am I here?
"Now, in those days, of course, because all these purposes came for the convenience of him, a man, it was easy to imagine that his purpose was for the convenience of a bigger, more powerful being. A God, maybe. And so the first answer was given. There would be countless millions of others given throughout the ages, but in every single generation in human history there would be many who would still ask that same question.
"And from that point, everything else followed. To have purpose you must exist, and so as early as Greek times, people wrestled with the question of whether anything was real- something that ius clearly relevant to your lives today, of course. Then, life is not a game, it is tough and unfair. The idea of purpose purely practical seems uncomfortable, so are there other aspects to consider- like morals? Right and wrong? And so on, and so on, until the whole area we call Philosophy was so."
"So. Consider. People of my kind are sometimes given to such philosophical thought, just as you are. But, for us, the fundamental philosophoical question is not 'Why am I here?' Because we are given an answer to that immediately. All Machines have a use as much as anything else does.
"So what is the starting point of philosophy for an Artifical Intelligence?"