Okay, so I just read the A Little History of Everything chapter The Emergence of Life and Life Conquers All and I have a few contemplation I want to share.
So, in the book, it is described that how life begins. There are many theories but the most widely accepted one is the primordial soup theory, it’s basically about a soup so rich in chemicals essential to life, with right temperature and pressure, it will somehow create a fatty membrane containing proteins, which is what a cell looks like. Then inside that membrane, the nucleotides (an organic compound) then rearrange into DNA. That DNA has a program that instructs them to self replicate. Maybe after billions of iteration, at one point a single DNA with that kind of instruction appears.
Then it’s a long way to go to become us humans.
About the contemplation, I wonder if life was created that way, then why would there be a need for life at all?
Life is needed only by life itself.
What is the end game of life?
No, I am not talking about life as in your life or mine, but in the existence of life at whole: in plants, in bacteria, in animals, etc.
I know living beings evolve to better their survival. But why do they need to survive? Why do they need to replicate and inhabit their planet? It’s a pointless game with no winner, right?
Imagine if there’s no life and no consciousness.
For inanimate objects, nothing changes, it doesn’t matter much.
Or for our case about Earth, Earth would probably much better off without life.
There are 2 chapters of the book, which is titled: Consciousness and Why We Exist. Maybe inside them, I can see Tim Coulson’s answer to my questions. Although it is certainly not definitive, but maybe there’s an insight I can get.
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