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Hi Popa,

The reason your potential has to be is, I think, also, is that potential has to come between nothing and something, for an absolute nothing cannot happen (or be maintained), since evidently, something popped out, and this something could not have been around forever, for, how could that be and, also, how could that something have been the right and workable stuff for our universe.

Therefore, similar to the quantum world, there must be potential or possibility (what I call it), as this ends the infinite regress of things being made of smaller and smaller things.

This potential is ‘before’ all physical laws, for they would not have existed ‘then’, plus, there was no ‘then’ in the way that we know time, since time requires movement. All workable probabilities of possibilities were open. There were no constraints.

Perhaps, if all the relative forces were to be added up, the sum would be zero, but the absolute nothing always unbalances itself…

As for random evolution amounting to something more and more complex, I like to think so since there were billions of years for this to happen and eternities for other ‘wrong’ stuff to pop out ’elsewhere’ that never amounted to much of anything.

As for awareness, perhaps the apparent entanglement of everything with everything can always recreate the whole locally, as in a hologram, light carrying the information that defines objects—kind of like awareness makes up the dispositions underlying reality, which helps our experiencing of it.