>>11048610There is a book: The selfish gene that explains this pretty well.
When you say "Why do organisms want to pass on their genes".
You might as well say "Why does the turtle's shell want the turtle to have babies".
It doesn't it's an inanimate piece of keratin basically.
Well.. you are a system of muscles and nerves that your genes ride around in from generation to generation.
All of you from your eyes, to your brain itself only occured because they helped the genes pass to the next generation.
It's actually really fucking trippy to think about.
Imagine a system with no purpose. A computer program that wrote itself. You'd think it would have some sort of order? Some sort of 'goal' it's going towards?
Nope. Just make all kinds of wierd shit like bees.
That's reality and nature. Fucking bees.
It's like one of those psychedelic artists that just paint weird shit, random circles and lines.. some insane creativity.
It's just really hard to imagine that, such chaotic but ordered beauty can arise from basically a single algorithm:
"That which exists.. exists and that which can't exist. Won't exist".
