Who Do We Choose To Be?

What Science Teaches

Living systems create themselves. They (we) are all self-authoring. We always and only organize around an identity, a membrane or boundary that distinguishes us from everything else. Without identity, there would be no means to differentiate one thing from another. There would be no possibility to organize into greater complexity and order. Without identity, it would be a never-ending mess of primordial soup devoid of form and possibility.

There are alternate theories for how life began about four billion years ago, how the first chemical reactions occurred to create the first cells. Where did the energy for those first chemical reactions come from? Was it in the primordial soup of ocean struck by lightning, or in heat vents ...