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[[Image:lighterstill.jpg]][[Image:Soul_purpose.jpg|right|frame|<center>[[Love]] is our [[soul]] <u>purpose</u>.</center>]]
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[[Image:lighterstill.jpg]][[Image:Soul_purpose.jpg|right|frame|<center>[[Love]] is our [[soul]] ''purpose''.</center>]]
    
'''Purpose''' is the [[cognitive]] awareness in cause and effect linking for achieving a goal in a given [[system]], whether [[human]] or [[machine]]. Its most general sense is the anticipated result which guides [[decision]] making in choosing appropriate [[action]]s within a range of strategies in the [[process]] (a conceptual scheme) based on varying degrees of [[ambiguity]] about the [[knowledge]] that creates the contextualisation for the action. Purpose serves to change the [[state]] of conditions in a given environment, usually to one with a perceived better set of conditions or parameters from the previous state. This change is the [[motivation]] that serves the locus of control and goal orientation. In [[psychology]] and psychiatry, the [[experience]] of lacking a purpose in one's life is known as [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acedia accidy].
 
'''Purpose''' is the [[cognitive]] awareness in cause and effect linking for achieving a goal in a given [[system]], whether [[human]] or [[machine]]. Its most general sense is the anticipated result which guides [[decision]] making in choosing appropriate [[action]]s within a range of strategies in the [[process]] (a conceptual scheme) based on varying degrees of [[ambiguity]] about the [[knowledge]] that creates the contextualisation for the action. Purpose serves to change the [[state]] of conditions in a given environment, usually to one with a perceived better set of conditions or parameters from the previous state. This change is the [[motivation]] that serves the locus of control and goal orientation. In [[psychology]] and psychiatry, the [[experience]] of lacking a purpose in one's life is known as [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acedia accidy].

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