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Considering life to be a matter modifier - what would be the final state?

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Imagine every organism is a matter-modifying and sorting mechanism within a very large chaos.

Organisms believe their purpose is to evolve by reproduction and they're able to not wipe themselves out before every piece of matter is at its final place and or state - meaning there is no more use for any organism to interact with it. However, they are never able to change the laws of physics.

Would matter eventually be transformed into a final state in which it becomes useless to any form of life and its purpose to reproduce? What would be such a state?

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Work towards the heat death of the universe.

Your idea sounds a lot like the heat death of the universe, a hypothetical event where the universe reaches maximum entropy and no more work can be done. This will be the end of the dark era, when just photons, neutrinos, and other small subatomic particles whizzed about.

The universe won't reach this state - if it ever does - for over 10100 years. By comparison, the universe is currently about 1.3$\times$1010 years old. So the universe will go on, and on, and on, slowly winding down (for lack of a better analogy).

All your organisms have to do is simply go on living. Any work increases the entropy of a closed system, so as long as they live, they are increasing the entropy of the universe and bringing it one step closer to the heat death.

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