I watch a lot of videos and read a lot of essays, and as someone born in the nineties I still don't quite understand what living is for.
Many people say life has no meaning. Many say living is the meaning.
I don't know either. Probably both are right.
Today I want to talk about the evidence that you lived. Plenty of theories and scriptures tell me the body is only a shell, and above the shell there is a soul, a nature, "rebirth," "karma." I do believe in cause and effect. I just haven't seen through any of it yet. So does that make the shell unimportant?
It doesn't seem so.
Because it is the only way you touch the physical world. It is where every feeling comes from, the ground everything else runs on. It is also the evidence that you lived.
I spent some time in an ICU. The room was called ChesterAI4Good. Right after pain, a person chooses to forget: forget the pain, forget the helplessness, forget the humiliation. Given enough time, what's left is memory and gratitude. Some nights I can't sleep and I joke with myself that one painkiller would fix it. It changed the course of my life, like a chapter a history book prints in bold. It will pass, but it deserves to be remembered, especially the moments someone cared.
Many people say: I'm an ordinary person, I don't need to prove I lived, history won't remember me. What I want to say is that everyone can have a history. Some of it belongs to a country, some to a culture, and some can simply belong to you and your family. Ordinary or quiet, we still want to hear your story, because it holds something no one else has tasted.
Back to what we're building. On the surface, Prometheno returns medical data to patients so they can benefit from it. In the long run, what we hope for is that everyone can see their own health, and their own story, more clearly. Your existence already opened the first chapter, and every moment you are writing your evidence. MedMe (医我) is the first app we've released; it starts from medical records.
What is the evidence for? For a person, I think it is more than knowing your own health better; it is a way of taking responsibility for a life. For a society, a great deal of evidence is what moves research forward and widens what people can do.