

When did self-preservation become instinct?
So I was recently wondering why pretty much all living organisms have a drive to reproduce and preserve themselves and the species and the answer I found was basically survivorship bias; only the things that reproduced are still here.
But now I am wondering when and how chemicals making more of themselves became an actual instictive behavior like we recognize today in ourselves and most other species.
Do we even know? I would assume it must have happened somewhat early in the history of life for it to keep evolving to the extent it has.
So I tried out ZeroTier but it didn't work for the thing I needed it for. I uninstalled it just fine but I can't delete the actual ZeroTier account.
When I go to account settings and delete it from there, it just asks me to confirm to log out. I can cancel or log out and back in and the account is still there. Nothing gets deleted.
Friend I tried ZeroTier with has the same issue. I can't find anyone with the same issue via Google search. I contacted the support and they just gave me a generic message about deleting the account from the account settings, which doesn't work.
Anybody with the same issue? Any solutions?