What is life?

By Robin Dowling · 10 months ago

So how are the organisms going to live their life? Live any life at all? What even is life? And how can any sort of representation of life be simulated?

Questions I asked myself.

Goals

In life, all organisms have goals. Without these goals we would all die and leave nothing. No next generation. A flash-in-the-pan organism, long forgotten in the history of... life.

The organisms needed some basic goals to promote an evolution to even take place.

In evolution, the single goal of any organism can be reduced to: produce offspring that eventually also produces offspring.

Everything else is fluff from an evolutionary perspective.

Keep in mind that evolution itself is not even something organized by nature, or an intrinsic attribute of the world. It just happens to be the natural progression of events, given certain criteria. Such as organisms being able to produce offspring that eventually also produces offspring.

I gave the organisms two basic goals

• Stay alive
• Reproduce

In addition to these goals, I gave them behavioral goals that promoted the two basic goals. You can't just run around in circles in your own corner if you want to eat and/or reproduce, right?