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