I was in another thread and someone made the comment “literally the only motivating force for any life is actually genetic material’s incentive to propagate itself.”
And that got me thinking, “yeah, I obviously know that the ultimate end goal for an organism is passing on its genes… but why?” Why does that matter, or rather why is it a goal for genetic material to propagate and perpetuate itself? What is the “incentive” here and WHY is that an incentive?
In: Biology
Physics. It has to. Just like a crystal, when certain forces and elements are present things have to happen. Nothing else can happen. Force water with heat and it boils. A physically forced event is at the very bottom of a long chain of forced events. These long chains of physical events combining elements are creation. DNA is nothing more that a rock made of elements forced together by irresitable physical law. A crystal has a short list of events and forces and it’s easy to see. A mountain has a longer, more complex list. The DNA of “life” has an even longer list but every single step is forced by the laws of physics.
The elements and the forces rule every cell absolutely. Those forces rule the organism. There is no choice. When you wake up in bed with some funky, smelly person you don’t like you can say…”I was forced into this.” It’s true.
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