What if the better algorithm always wins? Algorithms are a set method to process information.
We, humans, are currently the best general algorithm in this solar system. We are particularly good at applying our intelligence to a wide variety of things. This is why we’ve been better than other species at navigating and populating this planet.
But what happens if a new algorithm is introduced that is just 20% faster at everything? The human brain would be obsolete as an algorithm. Exactly what happened when apes evolved into homo erectus, sapiens and now homo sapiens sapiens.
But maybe different species are not competing to be the better algorithm. What if life itself is an algorithm. It evolves itself (~one celled organisms-> animals ->humans -> general AI) continuously to spread and take up more and more real estate in the universe. The only thing that has kept on multiplying since the first life on Earth is DNA, with the individual organisms being vessels for the DNA, generations being iterations and species being life insurance for a certain type of DNA.
What if life is not about any species, but just about the proliferation of any life? Would that explain part of why any animal or plant has such strong survival instinct? Is that why we, humans, can’t seem to stop creating new technologies and multiply with no real?