It may be hard to imagine, when all of our senses are telling us something different, but our world is not one of solids, liquids and gases. They are just our perceptions of it.
The reality of you, of all the natural and man-made structures that surround you and the earth you reside on is that you and they are of more than 99.9999% space. That’s because the atoms, molecules and cells that make for all earthly structures are nothing more than energy linked neutron, proton and electron particles which take up less that 0.0001% of the space volume they occupy.
If you think communications originated with Marconi’s experiments with radio waves you are wrong. Atomic particles were interacting and communicating via light speed photon energies long before life forms on earth existed. We should not picture such particles as tiny balls that are being moved around by radiating photon energies. We can better picture them as nodes of living energy that proactively select, process and emit such photons and which come together and cooperate in structures to better do so.
Accept the above and individual and combined particle actions and changes are no longer seen as externally impressed but as internally decided by their energy content. It was this ability that created the first cellular structure from a molecular structure about 4 billion years ago. The early cells so created could split and multiply and some evolved into modern bacteria. Some of the early cells found it advantageous to cooperate and so evolved as multi cellular structures. However they changed it was always to better preserve and serve their particle structure and its energy desires in whatever was the prevailing environment.
The desires and proactive nature of particles in non-living structures means that actions they take are similarly not imposed on them but choices they make in the light of whatever be the nature of their energy surround. Consider how different ice, water and steam appear to us, yet their particle contents are the same. The particles have just rearranged themselves to best process changed environmental energies. Their different emitted energies convey, via our sight and touch senses, energies to our brains that are interpreted as shapes, colours and textures.
Life form evolution delivered more complex mobile, sensory and energy processing cellular structures that were better at satisfying their cooperating particle desires than non cellular structures. However, when some essential part of such structures no longer contributed to the whole they would fail; For that reason the evolution of these advantageous structures had been accompanied by a means to reproduce. What we see as the death of a living structure is not death for its particles. They live on in other structures less satisfying to their particles.
We have been a relatively short time on the earth. First humans evolved about 200 thousand years ago from an ancestor that we shared with apes. It was about 65 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct, having been on the earth for some 170 million years. They became extinct because of earth environmental conditions beyond their control. There is a danger that we might become extinct as a result of our own actions.
We may think we are special but we are just the result of evolution as decided by particles. We exist to serve their desires but do we serve them well? I don’t think so as high levels of stress, mental health and other negative feelings are our particles telling us of their discontents.