Electricity is needed to generate consciousness and it is used by our nervous systems to transmit information and to my mind, that process holds the secret to life.
I will get voted down to Hades for saying it but I believe the Universe is comscious and we all have souls. Those things invested matter with life.
I highly doubt that it happened as described in any religious text, but I also don’t buy the notion that matter animated itself through mechanistic means. And, as of now, there is no proof it happened the way that has been hypothesized by mainstream science. it is all theoretical.
One of life’s biggest mysteries is as yet unsolved, so I doubt any ELI5 will give you the answers.
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