What is the meaning of life? Far too often we are given the false choice of attempting to understand this question solely with our heart, through faith, or with our head, through empiricism and logic. But there is only one existence, and it is wonderful and strange and awe inspiring. To answer the greatest question, or perhaps more realistically, simply to wrangle out of it some modicum of sense, we must use all of our faculties. It is silly to think that to understand this existence we would so …