Every particle of matter in the universe experiences everything else in the universe, so much so that anyone who perceives accurately enough might read in any particle of matter what is happening everywhere, and even what has happened or will happen… Thus every particle of matter can be perceived as a forest of living things, or a river of abundant fish… There is nothing lifeless in the universe, no chaos, no disorder, though this may not be immediately clear to us.

~ Gottfried Wilhelm von Liebniz, Monadology

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