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Life is merely a repetitive, endless sequence of chemical manipulations that aim to create order from disorder or, in other words, to reduce the entropy inside of itself. In order to do so life must intake energy from its surroundings while evading death from natural factors such as predation. Life is capable of creating copies of itself, splinters of the chemical reaction that partake in the same quest all over again.

A human cancer cell, specificaly one of the cell line HeLa. This cell, like all organisms on Earth, is simply a complex chemical machine.

Due to self-reinforcing imperfections in the chemistry of life,^[1] processes such as evolution are able to take place. In this complexity increases: the development of more complex social behaviours, of larger brains, of more complex internal structures and better physical adaptions to its environment (such as fur or camouflage) are just a few of the consequences of evolution inherently driven by natural selection.

Life, being a system of chemical reactions, is a consequence of the way our universe is structured. The "laws" that make up what is physically possible and impossible in this universe have shaped life to what it is today. Life arose on this planet due to the conditions and molecules that were present on it at the time. All it took was for the first self replicating chemical machine to come into existence for life to diverge and evolve.

Life has no meaning, meaning would imply a creator of which I believe there is none. The only meaning life has is derived from the nature of the universe itself, which is a question for the metaphysicians.

To put it simply, life is a consequence of the way the universe is.

Footnotes

↑ DNA transcription has inherent errors, when these errors occur it is known as a genetic mutation, one of the key drivers of natural selection. Given 4 billion years of evolution the perfection of this process would most most likely had occurred if it was not disbeneficial to any organism that would have adopted it.

[1] DNA transcription has inherent errors, when these errors occur it is known as a genetic mutation, one of the key drivers of natural selection. Given 4 billion years of evolution the perfection of this process would most most likely had occurred if it was not disbeneficial to any organism that would have adopted it.

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