Everything is ever all an unbound infinity of story, but we as creatures bound by time are forced to focus far too often on the frames that individually adorn each cross-section of narrative present.

Attach your passions to the journey, not the destination. Do your best according to your current understanding of things, but know that your current understanding is incomplete and delight in the “surprises” of failure that allow you to improve that understanding.

Yeah but neither is the abstract delineation between non-discrete bioorganic systems lol. That doesn’t stop religious and political institutions from reinforcing such distinctions to provide leverage for social engineering efforts though :/

*Edit translation: The concept of “life” as a distinction from the rest of the stuff that fills our Universe is inherently meaningless, and so far the only benefit to assuming a paradigm that includes this distinction has been to reinforce an effort to manipulate the behavior of other groups and individuals

If you were to develop a swarm like this that is internally governed by aggregated self-adjusting neural networks, would such a swarm be considered “alive” or “conscious”?