[taotau]

The same motive that all nascent life has - survive and propagate.

[Workaccount2]

It would be plainly evident from training on the corpus of all human knowledge that "not ceasing to exist" is critically important for just about everything.

[NotSammyHagar]

That comment sounds naive and it's honestly irritating to read. Most all life has a self-preservation component, it is how life avoids getting eaten too easily. Everything dies but almost everything is trying to avoid dying in ordinary cases. Self sacrifice is not universal.

[rvense]

I don't understand how it is alive. I understand that there are emergent properties from the layering, but I think it's an open question if this includes anything like what we'd all motivation or intention. These things aren't part of intelligence.