[meric]

Like this? http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

I was thinking about this too the other day. Life seems to (more or less) be a set chemical processes that accelerates entropy in a given universe.

Say if you were the designer of the universe and started the big bang. If someone told you to calculate how long it would take until all energy is evenly distributed - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe), the simple way you would calculate this is just to calculate how many generations of stars your universe would support.

But if some sort of life (like us humans) arises and populates, say, 10%, of the star systems, entropy would happen a lot more than you originally estimated! Entropy is accelerated by life!

In my conclusion, it seems that the ultimate goal of all energy/matter - not just life, is to express itself through the second law of thermodynamics - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics). To use up itself and become static again. That ultimate death is your ultimate goal.

[nazariusk]

Interesting parallel.

Life (us - birth to death) within "life" (the universe, big bang to heat death), with death being a result (maximal entropy), but not the goal.

Perhaps someday the we'll discover/generate other universes.

Death might not always be the final result.

From the death of the old, comes the birth of the young.

Bah, enough deep thinking for one day :).