There's a part of me that thinks that life represents a key property of the universe, one that we may see accelerate drastically in our lifetimes. All around th

There's a part of me that thinks that life represents a key property of the universe, one that we may see accelerate drastically in our lifetimes. All around the universe we see entropy (in a broad sense) - the turning of order to disorder, the fundamental march toward the eventual heat death of the universe. But life is the one thing we're aware of that actually trends toward increasing order - starting with unicellular organisms, then the cambrian explosion, then the evolution of humans, then our highly advanced and organized societies... and now we're on the cusp of inventing AI. An invention that, as Kurzweil puts it, could eventually turn all the matter into the universe into a giant computer of sorts and use it to simulate another universe. I don't know, if you ask me, this represents some sort of fundamental force, or constant, or thing, that we haven't quite gotten to the bottom of yet. Some property of the universe that simply trends toward increasing complexity under specific conditions.