Existence preceeds awareness ...

Existence preceeds awareness ... so what?

So that is the defining understanding of our experience ... and why I call myself an existentialist.

There was no "awareness" that "produced/created" existence. Existence produced awareness. Awareness "arose" out of the consistent replication of biochemical events.

This not so hard to fathom now that we know that simple states of "on" and "off" or "1" and "0" can produce in their complex combinations and recombining of combinations into new combinations, the computer program (software) as separate from yet dependent upon the actual computer equipment (hardware).

And it is the consistent functioning of the underlying operating system (Mac OS, Windows XP, DOS, Unix ... ) that allows the building of higher levels of integrated software.

Some thoughts ...

There has to be more than one state of energy/matter ... because with only one state, we would have uniformity throughout the universe/cosmos.

What "is" comes out of what "was". Which also means that what is going on now is the seeded ground from which the future arises. Even if there was a "beginning" preceeded by "nothing", that beginning arose out of that nothing ... and that is why I am a transcendalist ... or a transcendental existentialist.

What we have learned form chaos theory is that even the smallest act can have a huge effect on future events ... like the pebble at the top of mountain diverting the bloulder as it starts to roll down the mountainside and changing where it will wind up at the bottom; therefore everything I do—and everyone of us—is important.

Note: I use "universe" to denote the known and "cosmos" to denote everything, the known and the unknown.