Qui-Gon, speaking after his body, named the split: the Living feeds the Cosmic; midi-chlorians are how the Cosmic talks back. Older texts called a similar idea the Unifying Force — the big picture against the here-and-now. John Jackson Miller treated those two names as one thing, the second being the older word.
A will is not a script you can edit. The films still happen. The well does not take dictation.