Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Instinct to survive (#40)

What is it about life that allows us the will to survive? I am including all forms of species when I premised "us" in my first sentence. The reason all forms of species are included is that my visual observations confirm that all species exhibit a survival component. Why? What is its genesis? The struggle to exist defies all known conclusions. The benefit to exist and genetic theory has some answers about how we strive to exist, but the instinct to exist itself remains a mystery. The purpose of existence can hold the answer. The logic then would be; the instinct to survive could be based on the purpose for survival. So what could be the purpose for survival? I included all species in my statement of survival instincts, therefore what could be the purpose for all species' survival? One answer is to experience life for a period of time, to further some purpose as yet unknown. Another answer is life, in its brilliance, generates a survival instinct purely as a coincidence. Whatever the possible answer to why we have an instinct to survive, that we do is important and is necessary to defining who we become now and into the future.

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