I don't think that natural processes are mindless. They have after all been very successful for a very long time.Perhaps it has. I dont see what difference it makes however to the here and now. We cannot really know anything with definitive certainty without a time machine, we can only speculate. None of this changes however what we know about the extremely narrow life permitting parameters we have on this planet. Life to me appears to be the result of design rather than mindless natural processes. Natural processes tend toward eventual disorder as things degrade and decay rather continuously building upon itself to make something better.
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And if there is any design in the system, it's that all life strives for survival and the survival of their progeny, over extinction.