Moved here as I think it belongs to this thread, "From a drop of water....":
Roger Penrose called looking out into the universe, looking at the richly laden "Table of God," (essentially, the fabled "Horn of Plenty"). I much prefer the other I've read, that looking out into the vastness of the universe is to look into the physical "Face of God" looking back (or, as Nietzsche put it, "Stare into the Abyss, the Abyss will stare back into you").
Then there is Stephen Hawking and his reference to the "life Zone" (temperate zone) of the universe and the forever constant of life's migration with its constant of migration mid-horizon of the universe. As I read him, the existence of a fundamental "Life Force" to and in the universe . . . going with the all the other fundamental forces that pyramid to and from it as apex energy. It being the only possible live action manipulative force of forces to and in the universe. In other words the universe(s) being quite manipulative (being amenable / submissive to working) up to a certain degree by the creative energies and reaches of life.
Also, there being far more dimensions to life, thus to the 'Life Force', than to the other fundamental forces. Being the apex of the pyramid, it encompasses and incorporates all the rest. It "unifies" them all within its grasp.
Hawking lamented the modern separation of philosophy and cosmology and physics. That it should never have happened. From all I've read from the writings and theories of various physicists and some philosophers, separation never really happened despite all of the denial of philosophy on the part of many physicists, particularly having to do with "Cosmology."
Roger Penrose called looking out into the universe, looking at the richly laden "Table of God," (essentially, the fabled "Horn of Plenty"). I much prefer the other I've read, that looking out into the vastness of the universe is to look into the physical "Face of God" looking back (or, as Nietzsche put it, "Stare into the Abyss, the Abyss will stare back into you").
Then there is Stephen Hawking and his reference to the "life Zone" (temperate zone) of the universe and the forever constant of life's migration with its constant of migration mid-horizon of the universe. As I read him, the existence of a fundamental "Life Force" to and in the universe . . . going with the all the other fundamental forces that pyramid to and from it as apex energy. It being the only possible live action manipulative force of forces to and in the universe. In other words the universe(s) being quite manipulative (being amenable / submissive to working) up to a certain degree by the creative energies and reaches of life.
Also, there being far more dimensions to life, thus to the 'Life Force', than to the other fundamental forces. Being the apex of the pyramid, it encompasses and incorporates all the rest. It "unifies" them all within its grasp.
Hawking lamented the modern separation of philosophy and cosmology and physics. That it should never have happened. From all I've read from the writings and theories of various physicists and some philosophers, separation never really happened despite all of the denial of philosophy on the part of many physicists, particularly having to do with "Cosmology."