My current working idea is that the universe itself is conscious, and that life is merely a small chunk of that consciousness attached to physical flesh. I have

My current working idea is that the universe itself is conscious, and that life is merely a small chunk of that consciousness attached to physical flesh. I have no evidence of this, of course, just merely gut feelings. Everything is viewed and understood through the human filter, even our own existence itself. That human filter has no frame of reference for what could be before or after.