Slag, I think "life" is a force/manifestation of nature, like gravity, light, magnetism etc and we don't need to actually know what we are doing to do it.
Just as termites don't plan what they produce, yet it is produced [a giant termite mound and single entity] by the few simple actions they carry out under natural instruction, so our drives will create the next thing. We don't plan it. We don't understand it. But we will produce it.
Just as chimps didn't produce humans. They didn't sit down one day and do some genetic engineering to bootstrap themselves into being human. They just did what they do each day and ended up with the result they got.
Similarly, we are going to end up with the result we get and it is just the progression of nature trundling out the eons-long evolutionary production line. It's not a plan that anyone understands and as you say about gravity, we are certainly quite clueless about what the life force is, but it's as real as gravity, magnetic flux, photons.
There are 5 forces of the apocalypse, not the commonly stated 4 forces [gravity, strong, weak and electromagnetic forces]. The fifth is the mind, which will increasingly define what the other forces do.
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