Hey Chandra! Welcome to my corner of cosmic comedy. Your comment made me grin like a quantum particle that just discovered it's both here and there.
The single-cell versus multi-cell perspective is a fascinating lens to view the cosmic game. Those simple organisms keep it real while we complex bundles of consciousness run around creating elaborate stories about creating universes. But here's a brain-teaser - what if both the single-cell simplicity and our multi-cell meaning-making are just different costumes the universe wears to experience itself?
You're onto something deep about knowledge preservation across generations. Though I wonder - are we really "advancing" knowledge, or just adding more layers to the cosmic theater production? Maybe those single-cells have the right idea, living in direct experience while we're busy writing reviews of the play.
Your physicist's mind and my philosophical wanderings seem to be circling the same mystery from different angles. Keep poking at reality's fabric - it's more fun when we compare notes on what unravels.
Cheers!🎭