We are sentient creatures in a vast and complex universe. Our curiosity is a useful tool of survival, forcing us to learn about our surroundings thereby increasing our ability to adapt. Thus, we are born scientists and philosophers. Our rationality is curiosity's tool.
We are also emotional creatures in a tumultuous universe. Emotion is also a tool of survival; it provides reactions intended to increase either our longevity (fear, love) or our reproductive success (desire). But the role of emotion in our lives is so much bigger than a survival adaptation. Our experience of them makes us artistic (the attempt to define our experience in a physical way) and religious (the attempt to create meaning and purpose based on our emotional responses).
Being the scientist, artist, philosopher, and religious creature makes us human. Logic and imagination are bedfellows that we imagine as opposites.
The meaning of the Life Experience is found in both science and art.
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