Oh, it's cool the universe (both laws and initial energy/mass distribution) provides a mechanism to blow things apart and squish them together on so many time s

Oh, it's cool the universe (both laws and initial energy/mass distribution) provides a mechanism to blow things apart and squish them together on so many time scales and in so many ways. The universe is so dead and cold overall, but extraordinarily verdant in places like Earth, a tiny place in a sliver of time. I don't think it's consciousness (or some form of entelechy) built into space-time. It's more like a kind of complexity-seeking at the several interlocking scales in a gravity well that happens to sit in some ambient heat.