Thanks for the interest, and I apologize for the delay in reply. All force exhibits a sort of Will and Willingness. Life, isn't added to matter... that would be preposterous. Causa Sui even... but as is the whole linguistic tradition in philosophy was practically spawn by Nietzsche's detailing of grammar psychology and how it smuggles in metaphysics into our current sciences. Which ends up making the Perceptions a Cause... which becomes a reduction to absurdity, that is of course if the conept Causa Sui is taken as something absurd.
So Nietzsche finds a way around the grammar psychology which smuggles in metaphysics into science by changing a few valuations that are actually logical.
A quantum of power is characterised by the effect it produces and the influence it resists. The adiaphoric state which would be thinkable in itself, is entirely lacking. It is essentially a will to violence and a will to defend one's self against violence. It is not self-preservation: every atom exercises its influence over the whole of existence—it is thought out of existence if one thinks this radiation of will-power away. That is why I call it a quantum of "Will to Power"; with this formula one can express the character which cannot be abstracted in thought from mechanical order, without suppressing the latter itself in thought.
I wrote a little post the other day in my discord group on N's conceptualization of life:
Life is not a substance added to matter, but "a lasting configuration of force-establishing processes." It consists in contending forces growing unequally, stabilizing themselves through resistance, command, and counter-strife. Obedience and coordination are not peaceful states, but tactical relations within an ongoing competition.
The Will to Power names the inner character of energy itself. Energy is not neutral or merely mechanical; it must be understood as having direction, valuation, and drive. Every force seeks to expand its sphere, to appropriate, to incorporate, and to shape what resists it. Where incorporation succeeds, life grows; where it fails, division and disintegration follow. Complexity and differentiation are not goals but expressions of domination, of life simplifying inward while expanding outward. Even “spirit” is only an instrument in the service of higher configurations of life.
Perspectivity arises from this same structure of force. Every center of energy has its own point of view, determined by its immediate relations of attraction and repulsion. Even the inorganic world is perspectival: distant forces cancel out, while what is nearest compels action and resistance. This is why life is “egoistic” to the core, not morally, but structurally. Interpretation is not a mental act added later; it is the continuous activity of the Will to Power itself, the primary means by which forces order, value, and master one another.
Life, will, and perspective are thus not separate domains, but different expressions of the same fundamental dynamic: force interpreting force in order to reconfigure and grow.
This does away with grammar psychology causality of forcing a subject predicate agreement, a doer always doing, which then makes the sense perceptions a cause.
Here's an example of how this will on will works...
The forces that configures a rocks properties, such as weight, size, surface texture etc etc. A 75lb chunk of sharp obsidian may resist attempts at applying enough force to pick it up, especially with unprotected hands.
The rock isn't conscious, of course, just that all energy, kinetic or stored, has the inner character of "will to power."