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				 Also, who is to that the universe itself is not, or is a life form? 
  
			
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 I recall a line from Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series on PBS many years ago:  "We are a way for the universe to know itself."  Since we (and possibly other intelligent species) are part of the universe, then in a sense the universe itself is alive and sentient.
Or maybe just alive...   
