(March 11, 2017 at 7:20 pm)Nonpareil Wrote:(March 11, 2017 at 6:12 pm)comet Wrote: There is no reason that the universe can't be "alive"
Yes, there is.
The universe is not an organism. It is not alive.
It also may be useful to state what the universe is. A good working definition in the context we seem to be discussing is "the set of all things that exist". So far we know that the universe contains life. Containing something does not mean you share those properties as a whole, though.
For example:
My sandwich contains a slice of pickle. That does not make my sandwich a slice a pickle.