What is the universe selecting for in life?

The entire observable universe isn't a relevant scope for talking about biological evolution. That'd be like trying to bring up precipitation and cold fronts when trying to discuss atomic physics. Technically the thing you're discussing in both cases exists inside those wider scopes, but the factors that determine how they behave aren't things you'll learn more about by taking the discussion to those wider scopes.

>The entire observable universe isn't a relevant scope for talking about biological evolution.
on a long enough timescale it is. What happens when the planet the life is on becomes uninhabitable? What about when the star goes supernova? When the galaxy starts running out of clouds of hydrogen to form bright stars and new elements with?

>What happens when the planet the life is on becomes uninhabitable?
Evolution stops mattering because the entire set of habitable environments goes away.
>What about when the star goes supernova?
Same.
>When the galaxy starts running out of clouds of hydrogen to form bright stars and new elements with?
Same.
These aren't evolution issues, these are points at which evolution stops mattering.

Except when the life is able to spread beyond those confines, then it becomes the life that was selected for, by the conditions of the universe as a whole.

No, spreading beyond the confines of one planet doesn't suddenly equate to moving to the scope of the entire observable universe.

echoes, nice

The conditions of the universe are what cause it to be preferable to spread to more than one planet, brainlet.

Knowing trivia isn't a sign of low intelligence, but looking for it everywhere instead of thinking more abstractly is

No, you're still trying to look at a ridiculously massive scope for a phenomenon that only exists in one vanishingly small section of it. There's no reason to do that, I don't know why you keep on trying to make this a universe scale topic when it isn't that at all. Even if you go from just moving beyond one planet to further deal with moving beyond one planet and settling on a second other planet, you still probably haven't even covered a tiny fraction of the galaxy you're starting in let alone the entire fucking universe.

because the first fucking sentence of the OP is
>What is the universe selecting for in life?

Yeah, and I don't know why OP would try to do that either if you aren't him. That just means you're both taking the same wrongheaded approach to trying to understand evolutionary biology.

>hurr dee durr
t. you

No habitat is stable long term, no matter what scale. Even in the microcosm of earth we see that the most long term successful forms of life are generalists that can spread across the furthest variety of environments. Various insect groups, tardigrades, etc. We can look forward and see that the earth won't always be habitable, therefore spreading to other environments outside earth will be necessary for long term survival. Eventually spreading to other star systems will be necessary, then other galaxies. All of this is directly because of the universal constant that no environment is permanently stable (at least, no environment that has energy to move around, which is obviously necessary for any type of life) Therefore, the universe as a whole can be said to be selecting for life that is able to spread itself as far as possible.

>most long term successful forms of life are generalists that can spread across the furthest variety of environments
Source that establishes "most" being "generalists" please, with actual numbers.
Not asking because I want to see a source mind you, just asking because I know that's bullshit and want you to realize this too.

Yeah because all of those koalas and pandas and shit, real long term survivors they are. Way more successful than ants or rats.

Also, the reason this approach to trying to apply the concept of evolutionary biology is retarded is because the number of known cases of even just a lifeform starting on one planet and leaving to another planet (which again, wouln't even anywhere close to a universe-scale situation in the first place) is zero. We only have a concept of evolutionary biology because there are lots of actual biological organisms who've lived, reproduced, and died on this planet that we can infer patterns from. You can't infer patterns from a hypothetical instance of some lifeform travelling to and settling on another planet, that would be an isolated one time event if it could even happen at all. There is no evolutionary pressure in a case where some individual lifeform does something extraordinary one time.

So lets see how many of the species that have ever lived on Earth that you've gone through so far:
1) Koalas
2) Pandas and shit
3) Ants
4) Rats
Oh no, I think you might be one or two species short here. Maybe because you're a retard who's making completely bullshit claims based on nothing at all.

I'm not talking about that selection pressure being present against the populations of a single planet, it's a blatantly obvious selection pressure against life in the universe as a whole
Life forms that spread to different worlds and outlive their home planet will not die with their planets, those that don't, will. That's.. 1+1=2 Therefore, life that can spread farther will propagate more than life that doesn't. That's the core of natural selection.

>Life forms that spread to different worlds and outlive their home planet will not die with their planets, those that don't, will.
And so far this scenario has come up exactly zero times that we know of. So again, why are you trying to infer any sort of information about something that has never come up and something that even if it could come up would be an isolated one-off event?
The whole point of inferring patterns is to try to understand a recurring process, this isn't a recurring process, it isn't even a process that has happened the first time around yet and might not be a process that can even happen just one time. There's no selection pressure with an event that never happens, or even with an event that only happens once. The "universe" isn't selecting for anything as far as all known biology is concerned right now, biology is specific to the Earth for all cases we know of to date. We don't see a bunch of alien lifeforms that were selected by the "universe" to exist independent of their home planet travelling around in space. There is no selection happening at that scale that we have any information on.

>And so far this scenario has come up exactly zero times that we know of.
1: planets and solar systems do not last forever because stars do not last forever.
2: life dies when it does not have the habitat it requires to survive.
This isn't fucking rocket surgery. Whether we've observed it happening is completely irrelevant. It's a basic consequence of how the universe and life works.
We can't guess at alien biologies but you can rest assured that they will require things of their environment. Mainly A: enough ambient energy to power controlled chemical reactions but not so much ambient energy that uncontrolled reactions happen or at the highest end of the scale, chemical bonds break down in general.
and B: the constituent materials for those chemical reactions.

>What is the end state
This is the sientific equivalent of spooks

but would be a good answer when you just talk about the property of "where it gets to first"
yeah it's made by and for people who are not autistic enough it makes them mad

>The entire observable universe isn't a relevant scope for talking about biological evolution
>commets can't arry bacteria

Dude, ther are other worlds that could plausibly be colonized by space-rock-sperm
This mean that forms of life that endure primitive space travel have an advantage.

Eg, life could appear on one planet, then jump to another when it collides with something. From there maybe a spacefaring species appear. Boom. Now the universe was colonized because some bacteria resisted sunrays better.

And it also applies to travel done of purpose. If we were dolphins it'd be hell to get out of this planet.
And even as humans, the radiation, asteroids, whatever we encounter out there makes a whole lot of difference when we try and conquer the galaxy. Everything from the size of the stars to the make-up of planets will bless or curse our travels.
>radiation
>gravitational forces
>getting minerals and water for space colonies
>miniroids
>stars' magnetic shields
etc

>No, you're still trying to look at a ridiculously massive scope for a phenomenon that only exists in one vanishingly small section of it.
You could say the same about the Earth's environment.

Would you say that the local conditions on my backyard don't matter to evolution because if it rains here it's a local thing?

It's a fallacy to treat our technology and tool use as not a product of adaptation and natural selection. If life can spread throughout the cosmos because it is intelligent enough to develop the tech to do so, realize that their planet will eventually get fucked by their star aging, and get out while the gettin's good, that's still natural selection at work.

Can't tell if you are trying to correct me or it's an addendum, but we are on the same page.
Tech is an evolutionary advantage

Self-awareness

The ability to counteract entropy

It selects for whatever survives and reproduces the best. It doesn't matter how it does so, as long as it manages to do that, with the population producing more offspring than losing members.

The universe is a god egg.

By the time we're able to break out of it, we'll be essentially a god.

>Peak Evolutionary Level

To answer your question in the macro, look at the micro.

This mother fucker has 15,600 chromosomes. Making it the most complex and oldest life form in existence.

Oxytricha Trifallax.

It looks disturbingly like a Lovecraftian tentacle monster. That is because it is one.
This mother fucker is often attacked by all manner of organisms. But it's weird shape and ridiculous flexibility help it survive onslaughts of other micro threats throughout its existence.
Make a life based on what this creature does and you will have hard core results.

What is the universe selecting for?

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>Yfw

It literally looks like Azathoth from this Lovecraft illustration.