>>5918896I think we're on the same page, I'm just not very good at communicating my thoughts! Let me explain though..
As you say it we have established certain universal laws that dictate how time and space will move, or as if matter = energy then it can be said to be the drive of formation and deformation in the chain of casuality. Casuality as cause and effect, if you bring this down to the smallest possible levels (not sure where we are now, quarks?) this would then also be that of which we are able to observe, but we do not know what this is in itself (right?). Again, given this everything would affect everything as is cause and effect. If we isolate this and talk purely about life, then when life sprung to being (whenever that was) as this single cellular organism that has been suggested, when it was driven to replication (therefore managed to continue it's existence) this drive for this incident (isolated from else, yet still affected of course, but if we isolate it to not overcomplicate things) would be set in motion, a for us very complicated web of events (casuality) would eventually lead us to where we are now, still one life (I would argue) yet the question remains if the concept we call human conciousness can be helt accountable for actions in the sense we use these words, as is it not possible that this is following a path set in motion that we can not affect purely by thought?
I might be getting ahead of myself here, but I think it ties into what you were saying although involving external events, yet those are obviously also "participating", as would I suggest that this entire universe in it's entirety can be thought of in the same matter.
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