No clear reason? It's because the thing can successfully make more of itself before dying. That's literally it.
See also: ticks
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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No animal has reason to exist.
*nothing has
As an animal myself, I'd like to object.
Okay, we’re listening. First establish some framework of “reasons to exist” so we understand what that even means, and then tell us yours. Centuries of philosophy haven’t gotten past the first step and you probably won’t either, but I won’t stop you from trying. Okay, go.
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exists for no clear reason
Sounds like Humans
Sounds like everything, if you're leaning nihilist.
Nihilists! Fuck me! I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism Dude, at least it's an ethos!
It also only has one hole, which, if you ask some topologists, is what humans have.
Has no organs
Looks inside...
...organs.
is there a poop hole?
No but also yes
yeah, the mid-ventral butt opening
The sign on the outside says "Entry ^" and the sign on the inside says "Exit ^"
It truly has one hole, in that it eats, has a digestive sack, and then vomits the poop
vomits the poop
have had norovirus, know that feel
If the hole doesn't go through, it is only a pocket, typographically identical to a plate.
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Kinda like a 2 stroke engine. The fuel and the exhaust all just mix.
It’s gross, but I can’t see any reason this disqualifies it from being on the tree of life.
Exist for no reason? All life has a purpose, and that is to poop. The excrement speaks for itself.
It sounds like it doesn't have a poop hole
Edit: oh, nevermind. "For food to enter and exit"
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"existing for no clear reason"
So like every other life form we know of?
I don't think any natural thing exists for a reason. That's reserved for things made or at least caused by sentient beings.
It's the roomba of the sea
The universe is a chain of cause and effect, and the only way to interpret "a reason" for something without introducing artificial human constructs of morality, is "what caused it?". The process of evolution caused this.
So from the wiki
The monophyly of Xenacoelomorpha soon became established, but its position as either a basal bilaterian clade or a deuterostome remained unresolved until 2016, when two new studies, with increased gene and taxon sampling, again placed Xenoturbella as the sister group of Acoelomorpha within Xenacoelomorpha, and placed Xenacoelomorpha as sister to Nephrozoa (Protostomia plus Deuterostomia), and therefore the basalmost bilaterian phylum<
Seems like "where on the tree of life" is "the first bilaterals" which makes sense. They seem very worm-like in bodyplan. Shit from the Pre-Cambrian can look pretty alien and have shaky relationships to more derived species.
Scientists do love to talk about worms
This has some details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenacoelomorpha?wprov=sfti1#Phylogenetics
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It looks like they do get new openings on the surface that excrete eggs and sperm.
is that a living fleshlight?
Imagine scientists declaring that you are not interesting enough to be technically alive and you have been officially kicked out.
If it has at least one hole, then it exists for a reason. ;)
It eats.
It is thus the primordial consumer.
... kinda does bare a resemblance to what AM turns Ted into...
That looks like self-propeled bacon.
You found a MAGA voter
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