> "What is 'we' to us (and whatever other life is out in space) could be 'me' to the universe..."

i'm skeptical of collective transcendence but it's pretty easy to see humans becoming the neurons of earth's brain over time. and as other planets become similarly sentient, they'd become the cells of an even larger galactic organism. and maybe galaxies form a universal being, and this universal being becomes a cell in a multiversal being.

it's cellular recursion all the way down.