Forces of Nature

Hear me out.

Every thing is made of matter and energy. This statement is uncontentious. The same little atomic legos which make plants and stars and ants and the rings of Saturn, make everything else we see in the universe.

Let's consider the universe as the closed set of all matter and energy which exists across time and space. Nothing within the universe can be made of anything existing outside the universe; it is a self-contained set. A rock and a starfish are both made of the same basic building blocks; matter, energy, atoms. They are different combinations of matter existing in and arising from the universe; the same way an artery inside of a body is made of small cells, which make organs, tissue, and muscle, which in turn make a body.

Some things we find are living and some are not. What if living creatures are just autonomous manifestations of the universe itself, and consciousness is just a function of the universe's awareness of itself? Then, humans are the universe's expression of itself. We are sovereign symbols, existing as both representations of the thing and the thing itself.

Gravity is understood to be the universal force which attracts all things. The great unifier, it is the organizing principle responsible for the universe as we know it. Without it, there could be nothing.

Then, what if love were just gravity expressing itself through human hearts?

Without that, there would be nothing.