How does life proceed?

 

You don't deal with terms such as birth and conception with the Sliver Model. Instead, you regard the beginning of life, evolution, and the development of consciousness in another light. Begin by examining the nature of particles, or pixels if you prefer.

Every atom, ion, and subatomic particle is 'conscious of' every other particle by virtue of mass, charge, and relative distance. That's my simplistic understanding. In addition, localized groupings of these particles (such as molecules and carbon chain arrangements) share overall qualities too. From the inorganic up to the organic, there's an overall consciousness of every structure also. Consider the functionality of proteins (with their primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary ways of behaving), enzymes, DNA, viruses, and cells. 

My idea is that this 'group consciousness' has no size limit and that any material conglomerate has an associated with overall consciousness. Even the entire universe-sized sliver. Perhaps there is a set of slivers identical in every way except that each has a different place where the overall consciousness exudes.

But in terms of a life-entity proceeding, the consciousness would exude through or from a set of slivers from the identical position. Then the rest of the sliver would vary. Now, flip through an adjoining set of slivers in an entropy-decreasing direction while following the physical rules of that universe (conservation of mass, reaction/opposite reaction etc) and there you have how life proceeds.