generate questions: Whitehead makes the startling observation that "life is comparatively deficient in survival value." If humans can only exist for about a hundred years, and rocks for eight hundred million, then one is forced to ask why complex organisms ever evolved in the first place; as Whitehead humorously notes, "they certainly did not appear because they were better at that game than the rocks around them." He then observes that the mark of higher forms of life is that they are actively engaged in modifying their environment, an activity which he theorizes is directed toward the three-fold goal of living, living well, and living better. In other words, Whitehead sees life as directed toward the purpose of increasing its own satisfaction. Without such a goal, he sees the rise of life as totally unintelligible.
What observation did Whitehead make about life? {sep_token} What did Whitehead state was the biggest indicator of a higher form of life? {sep_token} What did Whitehead believe are the goals f life? {sep_token} What did Whitehead believe was the fundamental purpose of life? {sep_token} Whitehead observes that life is deficient in what? {sep_token} What are higher life forms actively engaged in? {sep_token} How many goals of living is there? {sep_token} Whitehead sees life as directed towards what purpose? {sep_token} Without Whitehead's proposed purpose, life would be what? {sep_token} What was Whitehead's response to questions about why complex life evolved?