What's the purpose of that built in mechanism?
Perpetuating life?
Isn't that a way of overcoming death?
sex and death doesn't have a purpose, it's just a self sustaining chemical process
and a continued existence for any life is just a result of physics
as long as matter exists, life will continue to spontaneously re-emerge, even if everything that preceded it has died
I don't think sex is purposeless, I think every biological function and mechanism have a purpose. Energy preservation is key for survival/self preservation
I don't think life as we know it emerged from just chaos and randomness, I don't think my room will get in order on its own
if something is inevitable then it doesn't have a purpose, it just is.
amino acid goop requires a process of sex to stop itself still being goop this time next week, and this state of being will continue to exist until goop finally invents sex.
and we know it's inevitable that goop will invent sex because we exist, therefore we too lack an existential purpose.
obviously being clever sons of goop we can deceive ourselves as to not having a purpose, at least until we all die and revert to goop and wait for the heat death of the universe.
If you wait long enough, that pile of socks will become sentient, and one by one disappear into a career of puppetry
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