What exactly is life, and does anybody wonder anymore?

Question

i believe there must be a self-evident, all inclusive, and more humanstic understanding of existence. one that accounts for time and space, history, and everything contained therein.
example: Life is a birth. The universe is a living entity and stars and planets are cells and cell structures. The galaxies are organs, the milky way is a uterus, the earth is our fertilized egg. The sun is the endometrium, the soil is the placenta, the grasses are microvilla, the foodchain is an umbilical cord. Water is the universe's maternal blood, streams and rivers are veins and arteries, animals and organisms are roving cells, the air is an amionotic fluid mixture, the ozon layer is the aminion sac, forests and wetlands are filterization & other systems, & humans are the individualized cells and cell structures of the human spirit. Life is a birth process, a beginning, and God is our father waiting outside our humble womb... sounds strange, but compare you sciences w/the act of birth.

Answer 1

Possible. Nobody can be sure

Answer 2

Plenty of people wonder, precisely because life is a very slippery concept. There are general rules like a living thing can replicate itself but then is a virus a living thing. It doesn't replicate itself, it inserts DNA into a cell and the cell does the replication. And not all things are born. One cell life forms just split, no womb, umbilical cord, but definitely alive.

I think your description of the universe anthropomorphises it. You are looking at the universe through human eyes. What if an intelligent fish exists under the ice on Europa. Would it think that way - probably not. Or something that was always in contact with the spirit world (if it exists), communicates through radio waves and can't see or hear.

Interesting question

Answer 3

That's beautiful.
I flipped through a New Age book once that had a sketch of atoms being a whirlpool of consciousness.
You'd love the film What the Bleep Do We Know - quantum physicists implying the universe is constructed of conscious information all strung together at different frequencies. Without bothering the audience with the math behind it.

Answer 4

i think you've already found an answer inside your imagination.