When the machine gods finally found some planets with animal life, they finally reached a point where they were forced to slow down. While they knew about the existence of such creatures, they didn't know how to deal with them.
Naturally, their first step had been to think of ways in which animal life could help them in their research, but soon, they confirmed that only some aspects could benefit from them. The aspects of time, void, and space couldn't gain anything from them, so they decided to ignore them and keep doing their experiments in other fields… while the other machine gods wondered if they would gain some advantage over them or if they would fall behind. Not even the aspect of probability could tell them that since they didn't have enough data.
