right, it is here, on our planet No.1, proven so far, with life, that the universe has become aware of itself. nevertheless, the universe prior to our arrival was highly dependant of time.
Time was needed to have uncreatable energy in existence that must have been available to make matter in 3D space, at the Big beginning.
First, that human intelligence makes the universe intelligent is a category error. The Universe does not need to be intelligent to spawn local indivudual intelligence. Intelligence is emergent result of specific mathematical patterns. Would you say that the universe is intelligent because we are developing AI? More locally, would you say that the earth is intelligent because it spawned humans?
No, all that is required for emergent intelligence is a mathematically permittive condition.
A condition of "nothing" is not intelligent, it is permittive of "everything", including intelligence! All that is required is a dynamical causality, such as a cyclical function. Evolutionary processes via natural selection will do the rest over time.
Whether this energy in virtuality had a cycloid motion to it, would be pure speculation, or a Dirac sea for that matter? with rolling waves?
We know that in reality the universe has dynamic properties. This can be explained with several scenarios.
The non-human universe shows us an amazing in-build function of time, dependance on time and timing.
No it only shows a measurement of duration. The time you are measuring is the emergent duration of events as the universe unfolds. There was no time before universal time emerged along with the physical existence of the universe. Of course that time is now inherent in our spacetime.
In my neighbourhood among the palms, other life comes into action now, in anticipation of more energy from the sun, budding flowers, blossoms to produce fruit that could produce trees and food and more fruit in the future that is sure to come, as the universe moves into it. but that future time is there, whether the universe, or individual parts arrive there or not. time and energy are eternal.
You are right that living possess a sense of duration but that is a cellular memory stored in the cells cytoskeletons. It is called the circadian rhythm. Single celled organism already have memory of regularly repeating durations. On earth it is 24 hr day.
I disagree that future time exists. The future has no need of time, it only requires mathematical permission to continue.
intriguing is, how our movement through time resembles a cycloid motion, being at the same time forward moving but making an instant zero velocity contact. picking up stuff or energy in the process, to carry it forward into the future, for future use, and consequences.
Yes, and that is because almost everything seems to acquire a cyclical trajectory. Just look at the wave function.
Perhaps that more light now coming in summer could be considered the the ultimate energy cycloid, a rotating wave, in permanent zero contact with time, never aging.
It may seem that way to humans, but it isn't exempt from aging. It is just that these numbers are almost impossible to calculate.
Finally, the universe is not intelligent because humans are intelligent. Human intelligence is merely a local expression of universal potential. The universe itself is a dynamical mathematical object.
We could make an argument that dynamical mathematical functions represent a form of quasi-intelligence. But it is not "alive", only dynamical. (See; Causal Dynamical Triangulation, CDT)
Life is an emergent result of abiogenesis, not the other way around.
The requirement of cellularity for abiogenesis
Abstract
The history of modern biochemistry started with the cellular theory of life. By putting aside the holistic protoplasmic theory, scientists of the XX century were able to advance the functional classification of cellular components significantly. The cell became the unit of the living. Current theories on the abiogenesis of life must account for a moment in evolution (chemical or biological) when this was not the case.
Investigating the role of compartments and membranes along chemical and biotic evolution can lead a more generalised idea of living organisms that is fundamental to advance our efforts in astrobiology, origin of life and artificial life studies. Furthermore, it may provide insights in unexplained evolutionary features such as the lipid divide between Archaea and Eubacteria. By surveying our current understanding of the involvement of compartments in abiogenesis and evolution, the idea of cells as atomistic units of a general theory of biology will be discussed.
The aim is not to undermine the validity of the cellular theory of life, but rather to elucidate possible biases with regards to cellularity and the origin of life. An open discussion in these regards could show the inherent limitations of non-cellular compartmentalization that may lead to the necessity of cellular structures to support complex life.
Graphical abstract
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037021001422
No pre-existing intelligence in this evolutionary process. However it is mathematically ordered.