Not to state the obvious but the fact life started early in Earth's history doesn't mean it is some basic process or a common occurrence under a set of circumstances.  What if it just so happened allot of debris like asteroids and meteors at that time we're bombarding the celestial bodies in our solar system.  Now what if all this passing debris was from a specific distance source that had bacteria on it.  Now what if this source  is the only source of life in the universe in the Orem of this single cell, this making it incredibly rare and unlikely to spontaneously happen again somewhere else.  Now say earth just happened to be the needle in the haystack of conditions the bacteria had originally grown out of on the source that is now space debris.   this debris hit earth, along with other bodies in our solar system but only Earth has the right missing pieces the bacteria needed.  From these earth impact sites life just spread.  These impact sites were  likely in oceans,.perhaps the deepest trenches with thermal activity  To be clear this was a one time event of species debris that passed one time thru our solar system.  Perhaps spewed from a distant black hole or destroyed celestial body that had this simple life already made.  I'm not saying this is more likely or anything, I'm just saying if they are gonna guess and pull stuff out their rear, then I can do the same and refute their conclusion easily.  In a devil's advocate sorta way, as I don't have a horse in this race.  I don't think we will ever know "what's going on".<br><br>That all said I am onboard in many ways with his statement the universe is forming a memory.  My theory is life is the only force in the universe.  All other forces are manifestations in differing orders of magnitude of the life-force.  That part isn't really important, what I wanna relate to what he said is my idea of what this force is without going thru my complete idea of this unified life-force and it's origins etc. Anyway, how I describe this life force is sorta in the framework of evolution, tho not truly evolution.  I feel life at it's lowest order of magnitude is a force that uses energy to avoid equilibrium with it's environment.  Why does it avoid equilibrium, unlike other chemical reactions?  Because it's trying to find answers.  It's aware.  And every order of magnitude since that first emergent life form born of life force is simply an algorithm taking infinite forms over time to test, via iteration, all possible answers.  You could basically say that life is on a quest for omniscience.    Life's only motivation Is to find out what it's "sensing" around it that makes it not alone, or to say "figure out what is going on".  If you frame this life-force as god, then God would be akin to newborn baby that senses itself in an environment and thus the only protocol it has is to figure out"what's going on". So yea in a way the universe is builder Ng memory and it's for the same reason humans do.  To have data to pull from , aggregate and then reiterate to figure out more of "what's going on".  Life is a force and it's simply environmental discovery.  That's life's only mission and it's an infinite one because in reality there is no why and nothing to know so life just infinitely will transform like a fractal, self similar in it's divergence but also capable of emergent behavior all in an attempt to gather all the data/information.  All life is doing recon for life itself and in the end it's prolly a sisyphean task, which is prolly the only reason it's still going on.