Key points

Control is essential to life.

Living things control autonomously and nonliving things don’t.

Control is the process of keeping things the way we want.

To put it baldly, to give up control is to die. It’s as simple as that. Control is essential to life. Not just your life. All life.

By "all life," I mean anything that lives, including single cells like the unusual Valonia Ventricosa, plants like rhododendrons and the common onion orchid, fish like the Siamese fighting fish and the great white shark, reptiles like the Nile crocodile and the frilled lizard, and mammals like the naked mole-rat and us.

The way a living thing keeps on living is by preventing the state of its inside from changing according to the conditions of its outside. Non-living things don’t do that. Rocks d

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