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Why is life programmed to survive?
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RE: Why is life programmed to survive?
(August 28, 2016 at 11:27 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(August 28, 2016 at 10:47 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Life is order.  And evolution is the increase of DNA order/complexity over time.  It's a 5d process, centropic over time.

A completely biological reason why living thing "want" to survive is because most the things that will kill them, hurt....a lot. DNA wants the vessel to not self-destruct long enough to pass structure/function/order forwards through time as procreation.

Life also *creates* order. Beehives, beaver dams, automobiles, all examples of life creating order.

Order to whom? I think you got me on beehives, but beaver dams are a hodgepodge pile of the bones and chewed off limbs of innocent trees. Automobiles here mean strip mines and polluting factories over there. What "order" do we add to the earth?

Our current form of consumer civilization is causing the 6th mass extinction of earths biodiversity. "We" are creating disorder with reckless abandon and almost zero foresight.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
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Why is life programmed to survive? - by Macoleco - August 28, 2016 at 9:17 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Chad32 - August 28, 2016 at 9:24 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Macoleco - August 28, 2016 at 9:30 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 28, 2016 at 10:21 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by quip - August 29, 2016 at 5:05 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Alex K - August 28, 2016 at 9:31 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by PETE_ROSE - August 28, 2016 at 9:36 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 28, 2016 at 10:49 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 28, 2016 at 10:53 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by ScienceAf - August 28, 2016 at 10:54 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 28, 2016 at 11:02 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 28, 2016 at 11:24 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 28, 2016 at 11:39 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 28, 2016 at 11:56 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 29, 2016 at 1:26 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 2:10 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 29, 2016 at 2:57 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 3:49 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 29, 2016 at 1:23 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 2:03 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 29, 2016 at 4:43 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 5:10 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 8:13 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 8:14 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 2:19 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 2:30 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 2:43 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 3:00 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 3:04 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by ScienceAf - August 28, 2016 at 10:24 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 28, 2016 at 10:25 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by ScienceAf - August 28, 2016 at 10:27 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Jackalope - August 28, 2016 at 10:27 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by ScienceAf - August 28, 2016 at 10:29 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Jackalope - August 28, 2016 at 10:38 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by ScienceAf - August 28, 2016 at 10:30 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 28, 2016 at 10:34 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 28, 2016 at 10:47 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 28, 2016 at 11:27 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 28, 2016 at 11:37 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 2:14 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 2:25 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 2:38 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 2:51 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 3:02 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by ScienceAf - August 28, 2016 at 10:51 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 28, 2016 at 10:58 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 2:05 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 28, 2016 at 11:29 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by ScienceAf - August 29, 2016 at 12:58 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by ignoramus - August 28, 2016 at 10:44 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 28, 2016 at 10:44 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by The Grand Nudger - August 28, 2016 at 11:02 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by CapnAwesome - August 28, 2016 at 11:04 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by The Grand Nudger - August 28, 2016 at 11:38 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 28, 2016 at 11:48 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by The Grand Nudger - August 28, 2016 at 11:55 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by RozKek - August 29, 2016 at 1:55 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Jenny A - August 29, 2016 at 1:55 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Macoleco - August 29, 2016 at 2:04 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 2:23 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by RozKek - August 29, 2016 at 2:32 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Macoleco - August 29, 2016 at 2:07 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by RozKek - August 29, 2016 at 2:28 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 2:34 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 2:45 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 3:06 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 12:59 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by RozKek - August 29, 2016 at 2:50 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by RozKek - August 29, 2016 at 2:56 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Jenny A - August 29, 2016 at 3:31 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by downbeatplumb - August 29, 2016 at 5:00 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 29, 2016 at 12:52 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Yoo - August 29, 2016 at 6:51 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by LastPoet - August 29, 2016 at 10:15 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 29, 2016 at 10:27 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by The Grand Nudger - August 29, 2016 at 10:54 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by purplepurpose - August 29, 2016 at 11:04 am
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 29, 2016 at 1:13 pm
Why is life programmed to survive? - by LadyForCamus - August 29, 2016 at 1:47 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 2:36 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 3:04 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Edwardo Piet - August 29, 2016 at 2:51 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Whateverist - August 29, 2016 at 4:49 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 5:00 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 5:06 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 8:05 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 8:11 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 8:21 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 8:09 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 5:34 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 5:41 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 6:10 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Arkilogue - August 29, 2016 at 6:24 pm
RE: Why is life programmed to survive? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 29, 2016 at 8:20 pm

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