I generally think that everything followed it's path until "life" and especially consciousness of whatever degree, spun things off that path in a multitude of horrific and interesting ways by feeding back on itself enough to make some sort of choice. Hopefully all that jazz is rightfully contained to this, and probably other bubbles of free will that get swept away in the galactic pointlessness and wonder of a fart too big to comprehend.
I generally think that everything followed it's path until "life" and especially consciousness of whatever degree, spun things off that path in a multitude of horrific and interesting ways by feeding back on itself enough to make some sort of choice. Hopefully all that jazz is rightfully contained to this, and probably other bubbles of free will that get swept away in the galactic pointlessness and wonder of a fart too big to comprehend.