Letting go of something is a metaphorical term that means releasing it from your mental state rather than your physical grasp. To many psychologists, letting go of something means generating the emotional headspace that you need to recover from a situation or state. When it comes to personal and close familial relationships, the ability to let go can be challenging and even traumatic. That is why we feel such emotional strain when we feel grief. Numerous psychological explanations of grief refer to it as the first stage of letting go. However, to let go of something need not be as the result of bereavement. It could equally be the loss of a job or a relationship. There again, people also try to let go of their own emotions, especially when they are having a negative effect, such as jealousy or frustration.
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To many people, the purpose of life is very clear. It has been laid out clearly either by their parents, teachers or religious leaders. For others, it is much harder to work out. In fact, many philosophers have argued for centuries about what the true purpose of life is. There is a distinction between what the purpose of any life is and what it means to an individual, of course. Some people believe they have found a purpose in their life if, for example, they do a job that they find fulfilling. To others, the purpose of all human life is to work towards a higher purpose that is bigger than any individual. Broadly speaking, the latter is a spiritual interpretation of a life's purpose.
When computer programs and algorithms mimic the human ability to think, they are said to be using artificial intelligence. The 'intelligence' part of the phrase refers to the ability to build knowledge derived from acquired data. The 'artificial' part refers to the machine that is using that intelligence, usually a computer or, increasingly, a series of computers that can communicate with one another over the internet. The idea is that artificial intelligence will be able to replicate or at least offer something similar to human thought processes in the near future.
