That's great Kenny, I'm always happy to accept any donations. I agree that consciousness may not be there in mere rock, though is present in all life forms.

We need to make sense of how that first set of life forms then became conscious, if before them all that existed was non-conscious space material. I doubt anyone can say for sure, but that is the missing piece of the puzzle for me, and why I still cling to the abstract idea that this consciousness possibly existed in some other form.

In other words, I still struggle to understand how life comes from nothing, or from lifeless origins. All we know is life coming from life. Let's meditate on that one hehe.