Is the Universe living?

[Nikkums]

Quote by: Deus_ultima Maybe we are the cancer in the Universe's bloodstream? With the ideas of growth, energy, etc already mentioned, I do find the hypothesis of the universe being living interesting.

LOL maybe we are!

I agree with you, and many others. I wanted to thank you guys for some incredibly interesting responses!! I am so fascinated by the subject, and although I have not actually decided for myself if I believe the universe is or is not alive, I really enjoy hearing new perspectives on the matter.

[Kuldeep]

I won't consider US as cancer but, healthy tissues of the universe getting generated and degenerated while; universe remaining eternally the same. This is very much analogous with any individual living being e.g. me myself. The only difference is that I mortal whuile the universe is immortal.

Quite sometime back, once I tried to equate universe with magnified human self and existence of consciousness in the whole universe as God equivalent to I in my body.:)

[rcne]

Quote by: Kuldeep ... universe remaining eternally the same. This is very much analogous with any individual living being e.g. me myself. The only difference is that I mortal whuile the universe is immortal. Quite sometime back, once I tried to equate universe with magnified human self and existence of consciousness in the whole universe as God equivalent to I in my body.:)

The universe is not immortal, nor eternal. The time scale is just vastly different. Stars are born, stars and galaxies die.

I do tend to agree that the universe as a whole is alive in varying degrees. The little pockets abounding with life (such as this planet - and probabilities predict others) to the building blocks for life that are just floating around in the void of space. How they got there is another question entirely.

[jascowhiz0]

All this sounds Greek to me.