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By NASA images by Reto Stöckli. Earth from a distance.
Everything is often about perspective. An observer can’t see the animals and plants on earth from this far away , but if an observer zoomed in , they would see them all living well in their different environments. They might notice an initial observation that some animals have thick fur in the cold regions.
However , before going on , the problem with that is , that the observer would have the same sort of ability of thinking that the animals on the earth have that allows them to wonder about what they are seeing. And then of course the observer is seeing them , and so it is impossible to wonder about it at all , in some sort of outside way because the observer would have the very same senses that exist on the animals that they are observing.

But carrying on for now in the hope that some thought around it can help , like imagining a life form that doesn’t think. Hard to think of that , so just to continue , would have to say that our first thoughts about it all would not be that an evolution process took place. We would just think that the animals that we see would have had to have the fur to survive in their environment , otherwise they wouldn’t survive. We wouldn’t know anything about their past , and wouldn’t conjecture from a distance that the animals got their fur or eyes and legs because they evolved. We would just think that they have thick fur to keep them warm and have eyes to see and legs to walk.

We might also assume that underneath the fur and the eyes and legs that there exists the actual animal. We would soon find out though with further zooming , that underneath that fur are all sorts of organs like hearts and lungs and blood , and that would mean that the whole animal is the fur and the eyes and legs and the organs , and so don’t find the animal underneath the outside of it.

What we would also notice is that these animals and plants like trees , occupy a certain amount of space on the land. In the case of worms in the soil there might be say five worms in a foot of soil. We’d see that all life forms seem to maximise as much space as they possibly can do. All life forms might or might not be related , but what seems for sure is that each maximize their populations to what is possible. Since one species will eat another we might just say that in the least each species is not to interested in another species.
But on those worms , they are quite something. How did they do it. They are in any dampish soil everywhere on earth. Not one inch of soil is not used by them. It’s hard to imagine that one worm formed in Africa and then spread round the world. The idea that humans started off in a warm environment makes some sort of sense , but a worm could pretty much come about wherever it liked.

To finish. Are all animals and plants doing whatever they do before the earth will be eventually unliveable on. That’s said to be about one billion years from now.
A lot could happen in that time. But what. Would it be more of the same or something different.
Dinosaurs were made extinct by an asteroid hitting the earth , but life went on , and then we humans came about. Would we have come about otherwise. No idea , but farming for us would be very difficult if dinosaurs still existed.
That would lead on to wondering about whether any kind of set out predictability exists in what happens next for life to continue.
Either everything that has happened in the past was a new kind of happening , or it all sort of just goes that way , and all of those happenings occur that way everywhere in the universe , and so is what happens next is all going to happen.
Or is it that what happens next is going to be new.
We think fish , we think monkeys , we think humans. We think the past