THE UNIVERSE
IS IT BENEFICENT, INTELLIGENT, CONSCIOUS...?

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I am amused by those who are citing “quantum physics” to justify various mystical powers of the human or of the universe.  Interestingly enough, the universe is not intelligent (or it is not provable that it is; believe as you wish), it is strictly mechanical.  Things just do their function.  Energy turns into matter and vice versa.  It gets dry and hot, cooler air is sucked in as air rises.  Rain happens, weather happens.  And we have no control over it; we only have control over how we choose to function relative to it. 

If it doesn’t learn, it is not intelligent.  It is just a big, but dumb, computer functioning system.

From Is There A God?:

DOES THE "UNIVERSE" HAVE "INTENT"?

"I will put it out there to the universe and it will bring it to me" and other statements like that, related to The Law Of Attraction and "The Secret".  That's also wishful thinking as the universe is just a bunch of atoms with no real consciousness, operating in a physical balance that is rather marvelous - there is a reasoning in physics that validates that the universe must have some order in order to be able to exist - but that is a rather complicated discussion.    

No more than there is a God out there, there is no conscious universe that has intention that one can influence.