Stranger 1: "I understand what you're saying, but I don't think those things are necessarily more important than things like emotion, intuition, and spirituality. The meaning of life can't be reduced to a simple equation."
Stranger 2: "I agree that there are many facets to the meaning of life, and that it can't be reduced to one simple explanation. But I do think that the Cartesian coordinate system can offer a helpful framework for thinking about how we approach life and make decisions. I mean when we think everyone living in a vector space of N dimensions, it does make the problem a little tractable. "
Stranger 1: "I see what you're saying now. The Cartesian coordinate system can definitely be a useful way of thinking about the world, but it's not the only way. There are many different ways to find meaning and purpose in life."
Stranger 2: "Exactly, as long as we figure out an orthogonal vector space, it doesn't matter what we call it, because we can't intuitively visualize anything with more than three dimension. It's important to remember that the meaning of life is a personal and subjective thing, and what works for one person may not work for another. We each have to find our own path and figure out what gives our lives meaning and purpose."
Stranger 1: "Yeah, you're right. It's all about discovering the frameworks to assign values. My scale is as arbitrary as yours, unless there's some agreement on how to normalize them. What makes us happy and fulfilled and pursuing those things with passion and purpose boils down to various distributions in that vector space. "
Stranger 2: "Exactly. And I think that's something we can all strive for, no matter what framework we use to approach life. May be that's what the next generation of humans will evolve into, a chimera of biological vectors, that float in some computing framework. "
