Why? What force is it that compels molecules to organize into animal-like systems rather than plant-like systems?
If they can readily convert energy into new cells and reproduce then what difference plant or animal?
I'm still wondering why chemicals suddenly "acquire" a motivation to replicate themselves.
Why on earth do chemicals "care" if they reproduce?
A hydrogen molecule can survive forever wondering about the universe "mating" with this atom or that molecule. Why is it that somehow when it connects up with a certain group of other atoms they suddenly decide to repoduce (which takes an awful lot of energy).
Well, in the sense that the term is being used here, an "animal-like" system is just a system that eats food, whereas a "plant-like" system is a system that synthesizes sunlight. So, the reason why molecules would be organized into an animal-like system rather than a plant-like system is that they can't synthesize sunlight, so they have to eat..
If they can readily convert energy into new cells and reproduce then what difference plant or animal?
Plants can synthesize sunlight; animals can't.
I'm still wondering why chemicals suddenly "acquire" a motivation to replicate themselves.
They don't.
Why on earth do chemicals "care" if they reproduce?
They don't.
Why is it that somehow when [a hydrogen molecule] connects up with a certain group of other atoms they suddenly decide to repoduce..
They don't.