I'm thinking intelligent networks. I believe that everything around us is part of an intelligent network, or is forming itself to become an intelligent network,from the smallest imaginable scale (least intelligent) to the largest yet undiscovered scale (most intelligent).
Hence my idea : The 'brain' is part of a Universe, and a Universe is part of a 'brain'.
Why this belief ?
The most compelling analogy is the that our brain resembles a structure and functionality that seems to be formed as we speak on a larger scale : the Global Brain. (The idea of a Global Brain has been existing for a long time)
Google for instance was in the beginning merely a search site for info, but is becoming increasingly more intelligent, and is even making suggestions to us of all sorts now.
This domain is what interests me most of the last few years, because we are all 'elements' of this Brain to become, we make it work, we are it's cells, and we build a network that becomes more and more complex and communicative every day.
So this functional role that we have towards the future is not something that we personnally consider our goal or meaning of our life, it is more something of an instinct-driven succession of events.
And further :
The idea that we will 'export' this global brain sometime in the future to other planets, is interesting i think, because then you can start linking up these global brains towards a 'Stellar Brain'
And who's to say such actions are not also taking place in some form , on the other side of the Universe.
Does that mean that it was intelligently planned by someone, by a God, by something, by aliens ?
Personally i don't believe that, i think it simply is self-driven.