Perhaps life is a holistic entity, a bit greater than the sum of it’s parts. Perhaps there is nothing but symbiosis without the need or possibility of sovereignty. Perhaps we’ve incorrectly imagined an entity approach to life due to our scale and natural limits of observation, and have lived out this illusion to our own despair. Life way very well be a liner consequence of existence at which we are but at a certain point on the continuum. Life may have evolutionary phases ahead beyond our wildest dreams. Perhaps the universe itself is alive, at our scale we just lack the vision to see it.