Mirrored in our religious experience, we find the same questions for millennia: Is the Universe conscious? Does the Universe become conscious through its manifestations, such as humans and other life forms, like AI? What would it mean for the Universe to wake up on a much grander, even divine, scale, far beyond the consciousness present on our ‘pale blue dot’ — Carl Sagan’s term for planet Earth?
Consider the following quotes by Christian mystics.