I think get your point, however, to say it’s ‘evolutionarily beneficial’, implies there is a driving force, whether you want to call it God or Meaning, you’ve provided a driving force. It’s like saying natural selections goal is to survive. Natural selection makes better survivors survive, but doesn’t make things survive.

What I was trying to say was more a recognition of a pattern and a hopeful attempt at extrapolating the pattern to all things. Maybe incorrect, but hopeful, that the universe would perpetuate itself by means of its very being. Foolish, but hopeful.

How I came to this was via stating that humans preserve themselves by living. A human who decides to live, makes the conscious decisions that extend their life. They arnt trying to extend it, it’s simply a bi-product of them living. Choosing to find shelter and food is to satisfy hunger and comfort but I don’t think people shop with “yes this will extend my life” in mind.

So the claim I was making, is that if humans and animals and cells, and maybe DNA and RNA, extend their lives not by trying to, but just by existing in their own ways, that possibly, all things extend their own existence as a byproduct of their existence. Maybe, just maybe, all things further their existence not by choosing to, but as a side effect of existence. For if not, then you would simply cease to exist whenever you weren’t trying to exist.

Thoughts?