Aeon put out an article that Pocket recommended that contains the following:
Does life have a purpose?
Nobody expects atoms and molecules to have purposes, so why do we still think of living things in this way?
There’s no sense for most scientists that a star is for anything, or that a molecule serves an end. But when we come to talk about living things, it seems very hard to shake off the idea that they have purposes and goals, which are served by the ways they have evolved. …
