I'm thinking about the movie Lucy based on your comment related to the expansion of knowledge to future generations. It ties into immortality imo.
We're social beings and develop from a physiological perspective based on our interactions with others...naturally that starts with our parents/caregivers. That growth/progress is a bonafide baseline to make an assessment of where we are now/who we are now compared to (for example) a younger version of us five years ago.
Nothing you said from my perspective is out therelol. Unless the rest of it is lol.
The out there part is just about collective consciousness. Basically, we are all expressions of energy. This energy wants expansion/ experience through all types of forms. So, you and I are both the same energy/soul experiencing life through different perspectives. This way we learn different things at the same time.
So a way to think of it is that all the energy is like water. You have oceans, rivers, streams, and currents. You and I may be two streams that come from the different rivers. Since everything is energy it includes animal, plants and inanimate objects.
I always liken it to how the Judo-Christian God created Jesus to as a way to create a connection to humans on earth. Jesus was born of flesh and blood, lived a human life, died a human death. Before him, people could not even look at the face of God without going blind or dying because his glory. So source energy wants to experience what it i like to be born in Australia, to be born in priviledge, to be destitute, to be a mother, to lose a child, and every possible experience, from every possible perspective.
That was one explaination I've found interesting.