As an atheist there is one kind of "god" I could actually believe it. But would it be a "god"?

[Freelancer]

11. In my favorite construct, life represents an invasion...

of a vast non-corporeal awareness into the material universe -- learning to construct crude probes out of strings of molecules initially, and then more and more complex vehicles to gather information over the course of time -- like self replicating Mars rovers made of protoplasm. I can imagine a scenario where the probes, never knowing they are probes, might continue to differentiate and specialize and become more complex. Throughout their duration they would be enriching the bits of awareness invested in them simply by having experiences, relinquishing the enhanced awareness that they've collected at the moment of their destruction. In this scenario, simply by living we are fulfilling the intent of our design. There are no good probes or bad probes from the standpoint of the source of awareness. It gets back its investment -- principle and interest -- no matter what we do.