How could the goal change from dissipation to replication when the laws of physics stayed the same? The answer is that the fundamental goal (dissipation) didn’t change, but led to a different instrumental goal, that is, a subgoal that helped accomplish the fundamental goal. Take eating, for example. We all seem to have the goal of satisfying our hunger cravings even though we know that evolution’s only fundamental goal is replication, not mastication. This is because eating aids replication: starving to death gets in the way
