Yes, the universe has mechanical properties, but calling the universe a mechanism is like calling an orange an apple because they’re both similarly shaped. I have a hard time seeing the ocean as a machine. Or even a mind, as a machine, with all is capacity to forget and remember
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it’s own “parts.” Machines don’t lose parts when they forget, but minds do (lose bits of information).
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A system composed of pieces, operating together, according to a set of rules, could be called a “machine”.
We don’t know all the rules or all the pieces of the Universe machine though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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A machine needs to be put together by someone external to it; it doesn’t form itself from the inside-out like our universe does.
Thinking about the universe as a machine is rooted in the biblical myth of creation, which most touters of the mechanical view tend to ridicule.
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Actually, no. Quantum physics seems to indicate we’re in a “virtual” reality, and if it’s virtual, there’s a “layer up” and that indicates something created this layer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just because the judgmental daddy god of monotheistic fame is BS doesn’t mean there’s no creator.
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If you’re not already familiar with the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser, I highly suggest you become familiar: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-c
Simply put, at the quantum level, time appears to be non-linear.
This is still hotly debated, and “time” may not exist, but yeah, fun times 
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"the implication of this fine and indeed brave conclusion is that the universe is a mental construct displayed on the screen of perception"
It's beautiful to see modern science heading towards the same realizations about reality they had in ancient India:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(rel
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I have yet to find a piece of a universe (like a cog in a machine). A piece implies divisibility. It’s all one. ☯️
Creationism suffers from infinite regress. Who/what created the creator, etc?
If we see ourselves as creators, we can see discovery as an act of creation.
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Exactly! There are no bits or pieces except in the mind—or rather the mental web of abstraction projected by the mind—of the human being analytically observing the universe. Beneath and beyond that, it is all one, indivisible; uni-verse. One-turn.