Teeth, language and racial origins, page-31

unless of course you are of the view that as a biological entity the why am I here is answered simply by to live, to propagate and to die. Rather like a virus really

being less practical about it humans clearly have a need to explore these questions - even including the problem of lunch. To go back to language - the mere fact that we have the words to ask is an indication that it matters - but do we have appropriate words? In part that was one of the issues the existentialists grappled with.