Editing Meaning of life (section)

===To evolve, or to achieve biological perfection===
* To [[Introduction to evolution|evolve]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Brooks |first=Mike |title= What Is the Purpose of Life? Why are we here? Here's a reasonable answer. |work=Psychology Today |date=8 October 2020 |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-happy-life/202010/what-is-the-purpose-life |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref> changing from generation to generation.
* To [[Self-preservation|survive]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Lopez |first=Mike |title=Episode III: Relativism? A Jedi craves not these things |work=The Michigan Daily |date=22 September 1999 |url=http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1999/sep/09-22-99/edit/edit2.html |access-date=26 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811185026/http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1999/sep/09-22-99/edit/edit2.html |archive-date=11 August 2007 }}</ref> that is, to live as long as possible,<ref>{{cite book |last=Lovatt |first=Stephen C. |url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pharseas.world/Life.html |title=New Skins for Old Wine |date=2007 |publisher=Universal Publishers |isbn=978-1-58112-960-1 |pages= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314071723/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pharseas.world/Life.html |archive-date=14 March 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> including pursuit of [[immortality]] (through scientific means).<ref name="Kurweil & Grossmann">{{Cite web |title=Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever |url=http://www.fantastic-voyage.net/ |access-date=2022-07-16 |website=www.fantastic-voyage.net}}</ref>
* To [[Immortality|live forever]]<ref name="Kurweil & Grossmann" /> or die [[Life extension|trying]].<ref name="Appleyard">{{cite book |author=Bryan Appleyard |title=How To Live Forever Or Die Trying: On The New Immortality |date=2007 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-0-7432-6868-4}}</ref>
* To maximize one's genes' advantage in terms of natural selection, by having many children or indirect descendants via relatives.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cameron |first=Donald |title=The Purpose of Life |publisher=Woodhill Publishing |date=2001 |url=http://www.woodhillpublishing.co.uk/summary.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011113210502/http://www.woodhillpublishing.co.uk/summary.asp |archive-date=2001-11-13 |isbn=978-0-9540291-0-4}}</ref>
* To replicate, to reproduce.<ref name="Seaman"/> "The 'dream' of every cell is to become two cells."<ref name="Lane">{{cite book |author=Nick Lane |title=Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life |url=https://archive.org/details/powersexsuicidem0000lane |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2005 |isbn=978-0-19-280481-5|author-link=Nick Lane }}</ref><ref name="Weiss & Buchanan">{{cite book |author1=Kenneth M. Weiss |author2=Anne V. Buchanan |title=Genetics and the Logic of Evolution |publisher=Wiley-IEEE |date=2004 |isbn=978-0-471-23805-8}}</ref><ref name="Ackerman">{{cite book |author=Jennifer Ackerman |title=Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity |url=https://archive.org/details/chanceinhouseoff00acke_1 |url-access=registration |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Books |date=2001 |isbn=978-0-618-21909-4}}</ref><ref name="Rensberger">{{cite book |author=Boyce Rensberger |title=Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeitself00boyc |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1996 |isbn=978-0-19-512500-9}}</ref>