If any of you have read Jung, you might be familiar with the theory that God, or the universe, is an unconscious being attempting to experience consciousness through our existence. It may be argued that the universe wants to prove that it exists, as without a conscious subject to witness it, it may as well not be real.
Quite the opposite, in fact. We're little bits of primordial ocean that deliberately separated ourselves from the larger sea in order to experience individual existence, just for a little while, and the price we pay is that we eventually dry up.
The universe is inert. Dead. Life is imposed upon it from outside. The evolution of life is the struggle to make this dead matter do what life wants it to do. Life is not a natural part of the material universe, which by its nature wants to be inert. Life is forcing dead matter to become something else. But the universe will never attain consciousness, because consciousness is a function of life, and life is not a natural part of the universe -- it comes from elsewhere. The universe is just the suit of clothes life wears.
In other words, the universe is constantly pushing life into a struggle for survival. Existence is, by its very nature, violence and rebellion.
Pretty badass.
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