Agnostic Deism

IX. The Timeline

Phase	Event	State of Energy Organization	Agency Level
Initialization	Big Bang ($T=0$)	Unorganized (pre-life)	Hard-Coded Laws
The Handshake	Abiogenesis	First biological organization	Firmware Trigger
The Software	Brains Evolve	Complex, self-aware organization	Self-Determination Emerges (gradient)
The Filtering	Continuous Evolution	Continuous reorganization	Blind Optimization
The Authorship	Genetic Engineering	Conscious modification of code	Directed Optimization
The Shutdown	Solar Death	Local organization ends	Deletion of Local Data
The Silence	Heat Death ($S\to \mathrm{\infty }$) (Projected)	All organization ends	Final Equilibrium