The universe is a living body. It is a steam engine. A machine. The universe is a formal system. The universe is an image, a hologram. A computer. Briefly a blockchain. Oh the silly things we used to think before we figured out it is a neural network.
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Even if it is, there is something to transcend here. We can cultivate subtler abstractions. The the "church", of course, likes simple-minded abstractions, and likes when we confuse them with reality, so that working on its civilizational project seems like the only thing to do.
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