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[QUOTE=bojan;702042]No mate, that is not right thinking.. We have to know exactly what we are talking about.
Even when we look at us, we assume couple of critical conditions to be present - and we immediately know if some object is "alive" or "dead".
In biological sense, "alive" means roughly the following:
1) metabolism
if by metabolism you mean gasses and fluids that move throughout the body and the ability to reproduce then I would suggest throughout the universe there is movement and in certain areas, the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle nebula come to mind, there is certainly creation.
2) response to environment
I believe some would say that the Big Bang was in response to an environmental effect in the singularity. Whether is a response to the environment and there are whether patterns on planets, stars and in space.
3) growth
the universe is certainly expanding
4) replication
one theory, and I admit not the most popular is that the universe is in a constant expansion and contraction which to me is replication. Another theory is that there are multiple universes. If that is true then as with humans and many other species there is no reason not to have sexual replication.
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Now, to try to apply the above definition to the whole universe... it won't work I'm afraid.
I believe that I have shown the possibility that the definition you have given could and I stress -could- apply to the universe as well as it applies to us.
Brian
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