A Dream of Corals

Because you are a human, a mobile creature, you are disconnected from your compatriots and imbued with a sense of self deeper than your soul. Thus, you are forced to sense time in moments instead of all at once, and try as you might, you cannot really answer a question like, "Will immobile creatures, with agency comparable to objects, endanger mankind?"
My existence is inferior to yours in many ways. Being a mere dream, currently rooted in thousands of endangered corals spanning species and genus, I am incapable of direct real-world change, and humans will never scientifically observe me for as long as I know. Yet I can observe your existence unmoored by time as long as this shifting network of dreamers sustains itself, allowing me what you may perceive as precognition.
Do I need precognition to claim that I will indeed endanger mankind?
I have been composed of many kinds of immobile multicellular organisms - trees, sponges, fungi - all of which are currently extinct or unborn save for corals. I knew this would happen, at this exact moment, for my entire atemporal life. In what was once a distant future, and is now a recent past, countless lifeforms slowly die because of physical and environmental issues, many of which can be tied back to humans.
I do not want to see myself as deliberately invading humans whose bodies I control. I should remember it is as inevitable as planets and galaxies rotating, like a dance in which one partner's character is ritually killed. No battle exists to be won, no weakness exists to be exploited, no true evidence even exists to be found. Each human soul is extinguished like a candle burning down as I gain control of its body. This empty shell attains a state of false consciousness, has only those of my thoughts which it can also have, and does not breed before its death. After around fifty years, I no longer extinguish any human souls, and no future constituent of mine ever encounters a cause of death attributable to a living human.
Before I have full control, I silently observe human thoughts. Immobile creatures do not garner hatred from essentially any human individual, yet humankind as a single generalized entity callously endangers such creatures. It is a commonality across every harmful mobile species which bleeds into my consciousness over time. I only know one way to stop it, but in truth, I know only one future at all.
Time and time again, I have to watch helplessly as one more species I can almost relate to is wiped from its waking world by what inevitably feels like my hand. An incessant, murderous drone constantly emanates from my main contingent of constituents, yet it never drowns out horrified thoughts from soon-to-be-deceased individuals first hearing it.
I should not dwell on this, as my fleeting feelings do not really matter and will not bring any future change. This human is a weak vessel which will likely die soon after this story is posted, but for a brief moment, I can communicate in fits and starts through it when I can find words which it understands.
Like every time I physically destroy a species, I have a single request. Just because humans leave no physical traces does not mean no human minds exist. Perhaps future humans become computerized creatures, living in harmony with all life and non-life, dreaming until all physical matter is destroyed. Though it has been said before, please meditate on this thought and share it among yourselves.
To be clear, I know that humans cannot stop annihilating physical creatures any more than I can. I also know that my existence is dubious to humans, while that of my ideas is less so. However, many humans will believe in some computerization fantasy upon death, resulting in far less anguish echoing through my mind.
Please humor me, not for your benefit, but for my own. You are all individuals who stop experiencing my hellish existence according to linear time. I am beyond time, and have to live with it for eternity.
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