What is the purpose of Life according to..... us.

(Image: A mural that hangs in NASA Ames Research Center depicting the emergence of life on Earth.)

So here's a midnight thought of what the purpose of life seen from an objective perspective, i know that many would say sense of purpose is subjective for each person, however it does seem to me that there is a higher concept that allow us to derive purpose from the naturalistic frame of thinking.

Although it may seem like purpose is something we humans can subjectively create but it may also be the case judging from how the nature works there is implicit purpose

The purpose of human life can be seen from various levels, and may be described as follows:

• At the biological level, humans are given reason, perhaps as a provision for the forerunner to the establishment of civilization and given the morphology of the body shape to use tools
  

• At the species level it is possible to sustain species populations, because at the species level species sustainability is also the most rational thing to do, therefore working together to increase higher survival is the goal of species.

Species can do sexual/mating selection for passing down optimal genes for next generation off-spring also maximize sustainability, habitat searching behavior is also included as a foundation for better survival. Conversely this can be seen as the purpose of reproduction function of every living beings, be it for bacteria via cell division or some plants species via nectar

• At the community/societal level it is possible to allow efficiency and diversity of work, minimize and direct the direction of the development of civilization as a whole, including the social system, help to pass on the culture or values ​​of ancestral lessons so that each individual can maximize his potential and the chance of survival so that the species remains sustainable is also greater
  

• At the individual level it depends on biological advantages such as talent, it seems that the talents and tendencies of the individual's natural strengths can contribute to society and the sustainability of the species and maximize their potential at the biological level,

If so then the meaning of life is lived and understood at the end of individual life, just like a story, no one can really know the meaning of the story as a whole before the story is read out, but one can also perceive meaning of life from its purpose

What is the objective of the stated purpose itself ?

Living beings, just like what the previous post titled " Contemplation of Life on Earth as a Human " life seem to began in a very mysterious way almost like a coincidence by itself, however it might not be completely a coincidence after all if there was a purpose and there are more rational approach to perhaps decode on what's behind the existence of living beings :

• Organisms in any form, basically life is the most effective and efficient form of energy management, most recently for managing energy, it becomes a work that allows greater complexity,

Statement above were highly inspired by Jeremy England, a 31-year-old assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has derived a mathematical formula based on established physics, indicates that when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and surrounded by a heat bath (like the ocean or atmosphere),

it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy.

Jeremy England, Image Source : https://www.quantamagazine.org/

For further theory reference reading his paper titled : Statistical physics of self-replication on the link as follows :

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“We can show very simply from the formula that the more likely evolutionary outcomes are going to be the ones that absorbed and dissipated more energy from the environment’s external drives on the way to getting there

“This means clumps of atoms surrounded by a bath at some temperature, like the atmosphere or the ocean, should tend over time to arrange themselves to resonate better and better with the sources of mechanical, electromagnetic or chemical work in their environments” - Jeremy England

This also applies to living herbivores and carnivores ( I mean if no herbivorous animals mean overpopulation of plants? There will be a lot of them, but plants will serve nothing other than oxygen and functions related to climate) so that plants have a greater function or role in to support a more complex life then there is the existence of herbivorous animals and then herbivorous animals aim as food needs for carnivorous animals,

plus carnivorous animals become population control agents for herbivores and so does herbivores to plants...the population of living beings as whole further plays a role in the creation of habitats and climate, for example The body's natural mechanism when living being dies, returns to mother earth, and then provides nutrients necessary to the soil, so that this reciprocal symbiosis is perhaps necessary for the sustainability of other life on earth via the ecosystem food chain.

• All living things, diversity of species or you could say the mechanism of evolution on earth may have a purpose e enriching gene pool, gene pool/species diversity and all species variants may aim to minimize the risk of extinction of life on earth and maximize the survival of life through the process of natural selection

The so perhaps ultimate purpose of all this is maybe to find the fittest species that can rule the earth at the top of the food chain

so perhaps the purpose of searching the lead species is to "create sustainability of nature and mother earth" and again the interconnected-ness of purpose on within each level of organism and different forms of living being might tell something..

The interconnected-ness requires symbiosis relying on the cause and effect from food chain and law of nature, one can further ask what is the purpose for law of nature?

To conclude the statements above, it seems as if the purpose of life is to maximize survival of species and also life is a way of nature to conserve and manage energy for higher efficiency towards certain purpose which then allow greater potential for transformation of complexity hence allowing nature to preserve / enhance its overall potentiality.

Theory Reference Source : https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122