I have derived my cosmology from what I believe to have been the initial conditions, when dimension space and dimension time became distinctly not ‘the other’. Space would evolve from point (in the point/moment of the started differentiation) to line to plane to volume. But when line is expressed all the points making up that line remain in existence due to their proximity to moment; when linear time expresses all the moments remain in existence making up the linear temporal expression, etc., through plane/planar, etc. I imagine the first expression of the Universe of God’s creation would have been the initial point/moment. I have yet to fathom how the singularity prior to point/moment would be described. To this realm of expressing spacetime ‘coordinates’ God has Added other dimensions with expressing variables. A living organism is made up of organs, which are in turn made up of cells. At some ‘least’ expression we might say the dimension from which life expresses is woven into the spacetime coordinate system. Would we say a prion is ‘alive’?
For a living thing to exist it must have variability in space, in time, and in life. For human living to express it has variability in the three but also in whatever source brings spirit into the mix.