Part 1 - an origin story built on evolving theories a body too large to replicate and long past the beginning of its existence boundary conditions possibly imposed by our observations questioning their absence a set of circumstances for this universe abdicating all responsibility abandoning free will determined to repeat patterns in a 3-D illusion we poke and prod asserting agency in our environment a life among the stars conjuring dreams from nothing an abstraction of quarks and leptons a hill to die on our ending predestined a circular action a predictive power a speculation universal symbols describing what exactly?