What is life?

if the the universe is affected by consiousness (which it is I could find you a reference if you wanted, the easiest one being the observer effect) and therefore an ingredient of it, the consiousness elements that organized the selves we are now (our awareness) will be the energy that our current selves (the consiousness we experience now) will diffuse into, it's kind of like how sound waves work.

To give an example, sound waves in the air can be pysically measured, you can walk down a corridor with a tone being played and actually hear the peaks and troughs (I actually carried this experiment out in an audio engineering module in college), the air is locked into a wave form and the atoms just sort of vibrate into each other either fast (louder) or slowly (quieter) depending on which bit of the wave your listening to, now lets say that frequency is 2khtz, if you played it in water it would still be 2khz, same as if you played it through wood, or any medium right? so sound is sound, a tone is a tone, it doesn't change much, it's a measurable, real, tangible (in a scientific sense, not literally) entity. It's a wave. It makes atoms vibrate into eachother.

But the weird thing is about sound is if you keep going up higher and higher frequencies, eventualy that sound will turn electromagnetic (atoms that are the medium for the frequency hold electromagnetic energy which become lose and you can capture that electricity) and eventualy become radio waves, it goes all the way up to light waves, x-rays, gamma rays, and beyond, right? so technically that is all sound waves, all electromagnetic waves are sound, or frequencies.

Now atoms themselves have frequencies, they are made out of pulsating elctromagentic energy, that energy can measured and even manipulated. Sound can effect things on an atomic level through resonant frequency (exposing the atoms to a tone, a sound wave, which is the same frequency as the atomic frequency, like when a glass smashes when an opera lady screams) so now when you look at a sound wave it's actually a big sound wave made up of small sound waves because the atoms have little magnetic frequenices in them, that's what they are made out of. So you've actually got a point where the materials of the universe have looped right round and the phenomenon itself is made out of itself... that's what we are, we are consiousness made out of consioussness, the same way sound waves are made up of sound waves.

And they say the universe is infinitely holographic, meaning that patterns like that keep going, patterns that make larger patterns that make larger patterns all idenitical to each other, or at least the organzational elements that contribute to those patterns are identical when we shift the view in either a macro or micro direction. So, in a sense that affecting parameter on the organization of the energy of the universe on an atomic level, aka consiousness, is in fact made out of consiousness in the holographic way that sound makes sound, or waves make bigger waves that make bigger waves. when that energy is diffused into its larger envrionment. It takes on a new form but is still the same energy substance, it's just being recycled, shifted either up or down the holographic scale (as in micro or macro versions of what ever it was before).

To add my unfounded opinion, the belief aspect; experiencing awareness of our consiousness is an illusion. We are not individuals, we are parts of a whole. just like each atom in a sound wave is the sound wave. So this life we are living now is a trick, and I believe meditaiton can help you comprehend the oneness of what we really are.