Which comes first awareness or agency?

Awareness is the state of being conscious of something. More specifically, it is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events–synonymous to consciousness. (Wikipedia)

So awareness is being aware. But when do we first have agency?

Agency may either be classified as unconscious, involuntary behavior, or purposeful, goal directed intentional action. (Wikipedia-philosophy)

Everything seems to have always had agency. Even the wind and the waves can obey. “And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!” (Matthew 8:26-27) If not for agency, nothing could be.

” … And if these things are not there is no God. And if there is no God we are not neither the earth; for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act [agency with awareness?] nor to be acted upon [agency?], wherefore, all things must have vanished away.” (2 Nephi 2:13)

Now let us take this one step further. If everything has agency and some entities progress to awareness, some may then be ready for moral agency. “That every man may act in doctrine and principle pertaining to futurity, according to the moral agency which I have given unto him, that every man may be accountable for his own sins in the day of judgment.” (Doctrine and Covenants 101:78)

Moral agency is the ability to act with reference to right and wrong. (Wikipedia)

What if it is possible our personality is developed from internal vibrations of strings or qubits? Agency might be our internal will to progress.

It could mean the more vibrations the more progress of an intelligence in obtaining more truth which then determines abilities and whether the intelligence entity can act or must be acted upon.

“I speak unto you these things for your profit and learning; for there is a God, and he hath created all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are, both things to act and things to be acted upon.” (2 Nephi 2:14)

What if everything originates as an dark energy intelligence with agency? This would allow for a great deal of difference in individual progression in an everlasting existence. Imagine how we might feel, if as an intelligence, we have only progressed to be a hydrogen chemical element.

It is helpful to realize that we wouldn’t have progressed to awareness and therefore wouldn’t be aware of our slothfulness.

So what I am suggesting is that intelligences have agency and those that progress gain awareness. Eventually those with awareness chose to be tested with moral agency. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:5) In the Bible we are taught this by Adam and Eve symbolically eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

What if we can find our missing particles and particles’ antiparticles?

For each basic particle of matter, there exists an antiparticle with the same mass, but opposite electric charge. Many remain ‘dark’ to us in the third dimension because the particles and antiparticles seem to spontaneously form and quickly annihilate each other–protons cancel antiprotons, electrons cancel anti-electrons, neutrons cancel antineutrons. For instance, the antiparticle to the electron, the anti-electron has exactly the same mass as an electron, but its electric charge is +1 whereas the electric charge of the electron is -1. When in contact, matter and antimatter can annihilate one another to produce pure energy causing us to wonder how we have any matter at all.

When a particle and its antiparticle come together they disappear into energy.

If matter and antimatter disappear into energy, why do we exist? But here we are living in a universe of matter.

The total energy of the universe is zero like a big sphere at rest before the big bang. Light, matter and antimatter are what physicists call positive energy. Many scientists believe there is an equal amount of negative energy stored in the gravitational attraction that exists between all the positive energy particles. The positive exactly balances the negative, so, ultimately, there is no energy in the universe at all.

Genesis 1:3 “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” After the big bang, light and particles and antiparticles exist and they begin by moving very quickly but the total energy/mass of these particles/antiparticles remain zero. All particles have antiparticles and the positive charges exactly balances the negative charges. The photon and anti-photon are the same particle of light which balances gravity– both at the speed of light. So again why do we have matter at all in our third dimension of existence?

What if the solution to our mystery is when particles and antiparticles come together their mass is converted to energy and put into different dimensions. Each dimension then operates in a different boundary of speed . Perhaps it is in another dimension which we cannot see because the energy/mass travel the speed of light or faster? A zero dimension could be an equal mass but opposite charge antiparticle/particle at ground energy or vacuum, no motion? Perhaps the big bang square root inversion accelerates the energy/mass into different dimensions creating matter (quarks) held together by gluons. To us in the third dimension the particles and antiparticles seem to spontaneously form and quickly annihilate each other and leave the third dimension. Perhaps annihilation is the wrong word. Perhaps instead with the help of the strong nuclear force (gluon) they spontaneously formed the energy/mass particles into a dimension and energy/mass antiparticles to another dimension but still connected (spooky action at a distance). For example–the tau (intelligence) family would be a total zero energy in a zero dimension because of absolute balance of negative and positive energy but the square root inversion caused the antiparticles to stay in no motion in the zero dimension (vacuum) and their connected particles move to the first dimension. Now with acceleration at the speed of light or faster (dark to us) the first dimension tau family (intelligences) particles could twist to form second dimensional muon family (spirit) particles still not visible in the third dimension.

But we are good detectives. What if the second dimension, dark matter (spirit) appears to still be there because of gravitational lensing? Energy and mass are equivalent but the faster an object moves the denser its mass and the slower the object’s space-time. Dark matter can be cold, warm, and hot which is a reference to velocity not temperature. What if the cold dark matter from the bottom up were to overlap or entangle with top down hot dark matter through a white/black hole? We could be left with some warm third dimension normal mass that we can see and are familiar with? This is because the particles now accelerate slower than the speed of light. Some of the tau family particles (intelligences) and connected muon family particles (spirit) would begin to slow eventually allowing the slower particles to overlap or entangle with the faster particles creating the third dimensional electron family (normal mass). Finally we would have particles (regular matter) in our third dimension.

MYSTERY SOLVED?

“For, behold, I create new heavens [second dimension, spiritual dark matter?] and a new earth [third dimension, normal mass?]: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” Isaiah 65:17

Leaving us in the third dimension still wondering where all the matter (mass/energy) is?