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A student shared the following with me. First, Through the Wormhole asks whether the universe could be alive:<\/p>\n

IS THE UNIVERSE ALIVE?(2012)<\/a> by costello74<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Second, Seth Lloyd talking about the universe as a quantum computer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>And finally, here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/atheologies\/4999\/quantum_theology__our__spooky_interconnectedness____a_theologies___\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Catherine Keller talking about quantum theology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student shared the following with me. First, Through the Wormhole asks whether the universe could be alive: IS THE UNIVERSE ALIVE?(2012) by costello74 Second, Seth Lloyd talking about the universe as a quantum computer: And finally, here\u2019s Catherine Keller talking about quantum theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,101],"tags":[507,1644,2093,2143,2219,7691,9817,11127,12508,13172,13894],"class_list":["post-22549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-theology","tag-alive","tag-catherine-keller","tag-computer","tag-conscious","tag-cosmos","tag-morgan-freeman","tag-quantum","tag-seth-lloyd","tag-theology","tag-universe","tag-wormhole"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>What is the Universe?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A student shared the following with me. 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