Eventually, I Believe, Current Attempts To Understand

Everything, Living Or Not, Is Constituted From Elements Having A Nature That Is Both Physical And Nonphysical - That Is, Capable Of Combining Into Mental Wholes. So This Reductive Account Can Also Be Described As A Form Of Panpsychism: All The Elements Of The Physical World Are Also Mental.

Fundamentally An Organism Has Conscious Mental States If And Only If There Is Something That It Is Like To Be That Organism--something It Is Like For The Organism.

If Life Is Not Real, Life Is Not Earnest, And The Grave Is Its Goal, Perhaps It's Ridiculous T Otake Ourselves So Seriously.

It Is Prima Facie Highly Implausible That Life As We Know It Is The Result Of A Sequence Of Physical Accidents Together With The Mechanism Of Natural Selection. We Are Supposed To Abandon This Naïve Response, Not In Favor Of A Fully Worked Out Physical/chemical Explanation But In Favor Of An Alternative That Is Really A Schema For Explanation, Supported By Some Examples. What Is Lacking, To My Knowledge, Is A Credible Argument That The Story Has A Nonnegligible Probability Of Being True.

The Universe Has Become Not Only Conscious And Aware Of Itself But Capable In Some Respects Of Choosing Its Path Into The Future--though All Three, The Consciousness, The Knowledge, And The Choice, Are Dispersed Over A Vast Crowd Of Beings, Acting Both Individually And Collectively.