Yes, I see it as a budding and growth, and passing on of life and its experiance, and finally, an end to this movement which is heightened by living organism ability to control movement and percieve. Intelligence raises this potential expotentially. But on the awareness continuing after we are gone, I think this is only in a combination of biological and its many expreiances realated, shown or otherwise taught by example and instructed, allowing for the dangers found within living in an evolving present, whatever goes on is more aware of it surroundings and its past: knowledge and instincts are the directors of our lives, in compination with the situations we ourselves experiance and how we react to them.