I recently watched The Why Files video titled “What If the Universe Remembers Everything?” AJ explores the idea that nature might have some built-in memory, that the universe isn’t just random matter following strict mechanical laws, but something that actually remembers past patterns.
The video got me thinking, so I wanted to share my personal thoughts.
Starting with the Big Questions
Science is very good at explaining how things work. It can tell us how genes carry information, how embryos develop into complex babies, and how animals know how to do things they’ve never been taught (what we call instincts).
But when you look closer, the explanations often feel incomplete. How does a single cell “know” how to become a full human being with eyes, ears, and a beating heart in exactly the right places? How does a third generation of rats seem to know something the first generation learned? Why isn’t everything just chaos and random mutations?
This is where the video introduces ideas like morphic resonance, proposed by biologist Rupert Sheldrake. The basic idea is that similar things in nature influence each other across time and space. Once a pattern has happened many times, whether it’s a crystal shape or an animal behavior, it becomes easier for that same pattern to appear again. It’s almost like nature has a memory or habit.
Related ideas include archetypes (deep, shared patterns in human psychology described by Carl Jung) and epigenetics (how experiences can influence which genes turn on or off and sometimes pass that influence to future generations).
My Personal View
To me, all of these ideas, morphic fields, instincts, epigenetics, and new theories about the universe having memory, feel like different ways of pointing toward the same deeper reality.
I believe the simplest and most complete explanation is this: God is the foundation of everything. As the “Uncaused Cause” described by Thomas Aquinas, and what theologian Paul Tillich called the “Ground of All Being,” God is the One who holds all of reality together. As Colossians 1:17 says, “In Him all things hold together.”
God sustains every atom, every law of physics, the visible matter we understand, and the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that make up most of the universe.
In this view, the “memory” the universe seems to carry is not separate from God. It is part of how God sustains creation and gives it order, pattern, and stability. Science is simply discovering how God does what He does. But the ultimate answer to “Why?” is God.
What This Means for How We Live
Logic Statement:
Premise: If God is the Foundation and Creator of all things,
Then: Every single human life is inherently sacred.
That means no person’s life is worth less than another’s, even if they think differently, look different, or come from a different background.
I believe if the majority of humanity truly accepted that God is the Creator and that life is sacred, we would make much better decisions as a society. We would be slower to hate, slower to harm, and quicker to protect the innocent.
Of course, even with this belief, humans are still imperfect. We still wrestle with hard questions: When is it right to defend life with force? How do we protect the vulnerable without becoming violent ourselves? These tensions don’t disappear. But starting from the belief that God is real and life is sacred gives us a much healthier foundation.
Final Thoughts
I’m just a regular person trying to make sense of the world. AJ is just a guy who talks to a fish. Videos like this one are valuable because they push us to ask bigger questions rather than stay stuck in purely materialist answers.
Whether through science, philosophy, or personal seeking, I believe that if we honestly search for truth, God will meet us where we are. We don’t need a perfect understanding first.
I’d love to hear what you think after watching the video.
The Pondering Place 
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