What would count as life when the universe itself evolves, organizes, and creates new worlds?

In cosmological natural selection, black holes give birth to new universes. A cosmos that reproduces is hard to call dead.

Cosmological natural selection says each black hole seeds a new universe, so the cosmos would breed and evolve. Eternal inflation keeps budding new bubble worlds. Cosmopsychism adds that consciousness runs through all of it. Process philosophers ask whether the universe makes itself the way a cell does. Biology's definitions were written for small things. They may be too small.

• What it could changeIf the universe counts as alive, the search for life would include the cosmos itself.
• How it touches todayAstronomers and biologists already share thermodynamic and evolutionary language for very different systems.
• Our futureWe may come to see ourselves as cells in something much larger that is still growing.

• Process philosophy connects the possibility of life emerging in the universe with a process-relational view of nature and engages autopoiesis as a model of self-making.footnotes2plato
• Comparisons between astronomy and biology identify shared thermodynamic and evolutionary language, while also noting that astronomy cannot observe the universe’s present state in the same way biology observes organisms.frontiersin
• The originating story explicitly connects cosmic-scale hypotheses with the possibility that the universe or multiverse could behave in life-like ways or harbor consciousness, while presenting the idea as unproven.reddit