@James Dean Conroy

Your theory is very good and at a service glance, would appear sound. But I find that there are several nuances and contexts to seriously consider, that could potentially poke holes into it. Furthermore, I'd like to way in with portions of my own framework, some of which do align, but also drastically counters yours.

Let's Start.

Vita Sentit
And sentiment number 1
Life is, therfor value exists.

You posit that life only started upon awareness. Before nothingness dominated. Next you say that life creates value, but also make statements regarding non life not enacting before in any way, like rocks, the universe exc.

There are several nuances in my research, findings, phylosopies and designs that poke some holes in these statements, or atleast, expand them in honost rigour.

1. Awareness did give rise to humans being the first known beings to conceptualize reality and existence true. But thanks those same humans, we do now know for a absolute fact, that even without any awareness, or any beings conceptually aware or realizing reality or existence in place or time anywhere, it still existed, was a living moving, evolving, changing and growing and living system regardless of that lack of awareness or placement. We know this through science. We know things happened in the universe, took place, and even that living entities existed all over earth, long before humanity cognitive sentient awareness. Therefor "life" existed very very long before the rise of any conceptual awareness of any kind, unlike your theory states.

2. Sinse your definition of Life, being lisely defined as "Awareness Systems" as I understand it, has been soft debunked in point one, I now direct you to my frameworks definition.

This definition is formed, by defining life at a core foundational level striping away attached mechanisms, processes and biologies, and focuses on the "what", as is the question after all, in "What is life?", not "how, why, which".

Here's the core definition of what life essentially is an fundamental level when logicly breaking it down to base function:

1. Life is anything or being that has a continuous permanent active state, in time in realities existence, perpetuating in time in existence till the active state stops in function.

2. Being Alive, means that one is also simultaneously permanently actively cocgnively concious, perceptive and conceptually aware of the permanent active state in time in realties existence, and ends once that state can no longer be perceived due to loss of cognitive permanence.

In essence as example

Animals, plants, bactetia and viruses have life.

But only humas are alive as far as we know due to the only ones having met condition 2, while the former only condition 1.

Similarly, alot of other things also meet condition one leading to the next point

3. Your Claim about dead things not assigning Vallue. Well due to my framework the following things now also fall into the catagory of life.

Objects, Digital entities, machines, Metaphysical entities, natural formations, minerals, planets, stars, extestensial entities.

This means indeed rocks,universes, AI systems, guns, entropy, and many more have life, as they are permemently active in time in Reality.

And they, all of them, experience and assign vallues greatly in their existence.

In conclusion summary on this section

Your premise on life's origin is wrong according me and my findings, as well as that of science clearly stated. But you are correct the that morals, rights, ethics and laws are not inherit to life, as life is neutral base starting point, and indeed does assign own vallues from there hence forth, but not necessarily just for "good", but for negative adverse effects aswell, like inheriting those very systemic binds upon oneself by own Vallue choice.

In your theory Vallue can be seen as an analogy to an extension sentient evolution, but it to sellects random still just like it did Pre sentience. And it's agnostic, catering neither for survival nor death, it simply drives one forward , and promotes striving, rewarding random adaptations or vallues both good and bad depending on situation, location and pressure.