Quote:What causes matter to take on this pathway?
Survival. The complex chemical compounds who self-reproduced were able to carry on, the other complex chemical compounds simply became a source of chemicals for the self-reproducing ones.
Quote:I don't know exactly what the con is. What have I "saved" myself from? Is it something also related to evolution meaning that my biological needs have fooled me into something that isn't necessarily so, such as being able to live forever? Does anyone have a possible answer to this?
It's not a con. It's just a way to make the universe more relatable. We want to be special, to have a particular place in the universe.
