Context: Whitehead makes the startling observation that "life is comparatively deficient in survival value." If humans can only exist for about a hundred years, and rocks for eight hundred million, then one is forced to ask why complex organisms ever evolved in the first place; as Whitehead humorously notes, "they certainly did not appear because they were better at that game than the rocks around them." He then observes that the mark of higher forms of life is that they are actively engaged in modifying their environment, an activity which he theorizes is directed toward the three-fold goal of living, living well, and living better. In other words, Whitehead sees life as directed toward the purpose of increasing its own satisfaction. Without such a goal, he sees the rise of life as totally unintelligible.

Question: Whitehead observes that life is deficient in what?
Answer: survival value

Question: What are higher life forms actively engaged in?
Answer: modifying their environment

Question: How many goals of living is there?
Answer: three

Question: Whitehead sees life as directed towards what purpose?
Answer: increasing its own satisfaction

Question: Without Whitehead's proposed purpose, life would be what?
Answer: unintelligible

Question: What observation did Whitehead make about life?
Answer: "life is comparatively deficient in survival value."

Question: What was Whitehead's response to questions about why complex life evolved?
Answer: "they certainly did not appear because they were better at that game than the rocks around them."

Question: What did Whitehead state was the biggest indicator of a higher form of life?
Answer: they are actively engaged in modifying their environment

Question: What did Whitehead believe are the goals f life?
Answer: living, living well, and living better

Question: What did Whitehead believe was the fundamental purpose of life?
Answer: increasing its own satisfaction

Question: What did Whitehead believe are not the goals of life?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  Whitehead observes that life is never deficient in what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  What are higher life forms never actively engaged in?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question:  Whitehead sees life as directed away from what purpose?
Answer: Unanswerable