Chemical Processes and the 'here after'

Chemical Process and the "Here After"
Are chemicals alive? Do atoms and molecules have awareness?

In any search, the goal is always in view. Each moment analyzed for opportunity. Seeking a potential to exploit. When the goal is fuzzy or out of view, the search takes on a different perspective. Emergent structures surround the seeds of life. Organization seeking advantage. Self similar expression in a turbulent soup of chemical junk, debris from exploding stars. Each cell, each super cell cloaked in living flesh, sensitive and tuned to perceive energy.

It's All About Perspective

I awoke one day and wondered why there had to be an other side, a here after, a god, nirvana, or something like that. And what about life and being aware? Why? Or maybe it is better to ask what?

We know that life is a chemical process. It could not be anything else. All interactions between molecules are chemical. Without the right chemicals life can not arise. Life can be described as an organization of chemical processes built out of molecules in sufficient quantities and types. Of course this is a very simplistic form of life. Yet everything and anything more complex is simply achieved through changes in organization.

A chemical process involves change; a reaction or groups of reactions between molecules and atoms, seldom leaving much trace of the original. Is there an after life for these chemical processes that describe this simplistic form of life? It seems the only here after is as debris. The same is true of stars and maybe universes as well. All interactions, even at the quantum domain, are derived from the dance between opportunity and potential. Both must be present for anything to exist.

Some How The Idea Of A Here After Got Created

Certainly(?) not by the simplistic type of life described above but by some type of life. As a chemical process or organization of chemical processes changes and mutates, it can produce an outcome that provides opportunity to exploit a new potential. Here's how it happened as viewed from exploitation and achievement.

Sufficient quantities and types of chemical processes became well enough organized to achieve persistence through reproduction. Awareness developed through refinements made to reproduction allowing new expressions of organized chemical processes. Eventually self awareness developed and with it the idea of a here after. Humans bury their dead. No other chemical processes appear to do so. Perhaps the here after is a necessary aspect of human development. It is certainly part of human history. Perhaps it is an artifact of thinking with a brain made out of meat.

As humans evolved and developed, the chemical processes became more sophisticated and the organizations more determined. Consciousness, an artifact of the body, sought its own persistence and awareness. All of reality and its potential can be nicely divided into two parts. The part I am and everything else. Me and not me. Humans created the other side to contain everything else. It was vast and timeless. It was perfect and persisted. And it was invisible until a new type of human developed tools that enabled them to look at the other side.

The early explorers of the other side reported finding all sorts of things there. A God on a throne in a palace, a stream flowing through a meadow, a mountain of inspiration, spirits, and demons, and every sort of thing imaginable and even the unimaginable. As they brought back this new knowledge, it changed human consciousness.

Life As Chemicals

Sufficient quantities and types (Organization: Cell)
Persistence (Reproduction: Super Cell)
Awareness (Expression: Virus/Prion/bacteria)
Self Awareness (Abstract thinking: Human/Dolphin/...)
Insight (Genius: Philosopher/Shaman/Guru/Scientist/Lovers/...)
Reflection (Pervasive: Unconditional love)
Enlightenment (Sense of Self: Manifest Destiny)

Without the right organization life can not persist nor be aware. Even with awareness and persistence, chemical processes; even well organized, lack the ability to self direct. Without a perceiver life does not exist; it remains a chemical process.

When do chemical processes become alive?
When observed as such!

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