Ripheus23

I had an idea about consciousness as a physical phenomenon. The fact is, even if the mind is made of particles somehow, these particles "know" about ones that they can't directly perceive (in a system) and which might be purely possible and not actual otherwise at all. So, I submit that the "seeds" of consciousness, during the Big Bang, might have been unusual "bound states" involving all the basic particles (including superpartners). These proved to be immensely stable and were gravitationally drawn across the expanding universe. For whatever reason, these "molecules" attached to various regions and began to develop the order of life, by nature, from their presence. That is, life is neither accidental nor purposeful, nor even absolutely inevitable---it is, nonetheless, understandable, how and "why" it would arise where it did.

Although, it is not absolutely required that the Seeds of Order be planted only in the seas of carbon on planets like Earth, I think...