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Originally Posted by bojan
Brian, no...
1) Metabolism is breathing, eating and sh***... in other words, living organism needs energy from outside environment (in some form - for us, this is in the form of other living organisms) to sustain the working of internal machinery and growth. The leftovers from this processes are expelled out back into environment.
the universe got its first big meal from the B.B. if we ever contact another universe that's where our next meal comes from. Black holes may well be the storage area for the universes excretion
2) Response to environment may be defined as changing (something like homeostat), counteracting to outside stimuli, in order to sustain internal equilibrium and state of affairs (for example, the temperature of our bodies is regulated, and independent of the outside conditions (of course, within limits))
our universe is changing as it grows and ages
3) Growth means exactly that - living organisms grow as they get older
as our universe ages it has certainly grown
4) Replication doesn't mean expansion and contraction, it means sexual (or other) means of procreation, so that the species survives and evolves, regardless of what happens to individuals (as we know, individual members of species die, but species itself survives... much longer)
if there are multiple universes reproduction is possible
You are too metaphysical with your analogies.
So, no, the definition I gave can't be applied to universe.
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Nothing metaphysical in the above though it is certainly speculative.
Brian