“In Each of Us Lies a Message, Its Beginnings Lost in the Mists of Time”
“At one time,” writes science-fiction author Dennis E. Taylor in We Are Legion (We Are Bob), “we thought that the way life came together was almost completely random, only needing an energy gradient to get going. But as we’ve moved into the information age, we’ve come to realize that life is more about information than energy. Fire has most of the characteristics of life. It eats, it grows, it reproduces. But fire retains no information. It doesn’t learn; it doesn’t adapt. The five millionth fire started by lightning will behave just like the first. But the five hundredth bacterial division will not be like the first one, especially if there is environmental pressure. That’s DNA. And RNA. That’s life.”
While we're at it, any idea where your personality comes from? It's controlled in the prefrontal cortex of your brain, but no one has found where in the body it is. Personality is different from consciousness, because virtually any living thing can be considered conscious (go to food, avoid danger, etc.) but only some have personalities. Maybe String Theory has another view that also suggests a kind of eternal life for those living things, including you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMpCUqZxzrI