well the idea of intelligence and consciousness in the universe is a huge area of study and wonder. Nothing can be discarded in that area until we have a been understanding. When you think about it the idea of sentient beings in the universe is weird. It does make sense or reason. It is in fact why some physics hold the idea of a god.
In fact life seems to counteract the laws of entropy, though new research suggested that life is the most efficient form of entropy, so as to get to a state of lowest entropy quicker there has to be strange cases of increasing entropy (life). There is also the Anthropic principle which has interesting conclusions on life.
Once again thanks for detailed explanation, and for your thougths about consciousness of the universe :) There is a lot of SF novels that explores that ideas. I think I should read a little bit more about scientifics theories behind that, so that I have some knowledge base while reading.
BTW. I really have no idea, why your answers are not upvoted. In my opinion they are very, very interesting and valueable.
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