RE: quality of life or life for life's sake
November 23, 2018 at 4:26 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2018 at 4:39 pm by Anomalocaris.)
No. Life has no goal anymore than a random rock does. Just as for rocks to continue to exist, rocks must have certain properties, such as hardness, resistance to chemical processes that would break it down, etc, so for life to continue, it too must have certain properties, such the ability and propensity to make copies of the information and mechanisms that channels biochemical processes to assemble available minerals and amino acids into functioning organism similar to itself. These are necessary traits for life to continue to be. But these are traits, and should not be confused with goals.
