It uses redundancy, fuzziness, dense webs of relationships, and unending trials and errors to find what works. Life is intent on finding what works, not what's right . There are no permanently right answers. The capacity to keep changing, to find what works now, is what keeps any organism alive. Life creates more possibilities as it engages with opportunities .
Life is attracted to order .
It experiments until it discovers how to form a system that can support diverse members. Individuals search out a wide range of possible relationships to discover whether they can organize into a life-sustaining system. Life organizes around identity. Every living thing acts to develop and preserve itself. New information, new relationships, changing environments all are interpreted through a sense of self.