Do you think the Universe is alive ?

Question

Why everything in the Universe tends towards complexity ? Do you thing the Universe- I mean everything that exists - possesses some kind of intrinsic "conciousness"? By that I don't mean that sort of brain-dependent conciousness similar to human beings, but rather a consciousness far beyond that of human beings, one defined in terms of natural laws ?

Answer 1

I went for the study of Physics because it is wonderfully exiting to see how nature's mother tongue is Maths.
Let me explain.
You see the world and how it goes. Observation is the first thing a scientist does, whatever his/her domain. If there is something observed but not understood, then one way of dealing with it is to "translate" the question into maths (e.g.. Hubble's Law), and try to figure it out. Then people come up with theories explaining the observation and predict others (e.g.. Einstein's relativity to explain Mercury's weird orbit). If their predictions are found (e.g. Mendeleev's Germanium element or the gravitational lensing effect by Einstein) then the theory is validated until a more general one comes and supplants it.

That process is called "scientific reasoning", although I've simplified it a bit, for sake of comprehension.

Now the interesting bit is that it works so well ! I don't reject any religious views and I would even say they are not in the least incompatible. What I call to your attention is the beauty of Nature being described by mathematics (for the sake of human comprehension, that is why it's some sort of "translation") and how the natural laws you call for in your question, end up being so elegant !

I would not go to the extreme of calling the Universe alive as such, nor conscious, but all of us, or at least all that bothers studying the Universe will find that sensation of "wow it's cool how it all turns out so elegant". I said "elegant" not "smooth" not "perfect" not "good for us humans".
-"smooth" it is not because you get down in the mud and dirty pretty quickly, trying to handle and play about with Friedman's equations for describing the Universe, as an example. Handling mathematical models for the nature's laws is tough, even if in the end it turns out "elegant"
-"perfect" calls for a definition of perfection. None of us agree on it so...debate is still open. This is one of the main topics in philosophy, i shall not get into here and now.
-"good for us humans" calls for an anthropocentric point of view which some take, but it is not a consensus.

In short: if you look out your window and start puzzling yourself about the world, you will feel that the Universe is interestingly "cool". You call it god(s) (religion), perfect ideas (philosophy), elegentness in mathematical models (science), I don't care. All three of them if you wish.
But the Universe is cool, that's a fact.

Answer 2

Of course, and it is expanding always in a greater rates

Answer 3

May be. But what upon its reproduction?

Answer 4

If it is not alive, how is that it is from times immemorial to you?