In these pictures[1], each individual 'dot' is a whole galaxy's worth of dark matter (and here[2] are said galaxies).
So you may view galaxies as "neurotransmitters" of the universe, maybe. Or hormones. The big luminous nodes are the neurons, where all 'dark matter synapses' converge.
Perhaps what happens when over the short course of a few billion years, some "life" is taken from one node to another, is just a cosmic neuron doing its thing. Perhaps said life is just the equivalent of some positive ion charge, and it ends up blowing up the node into a huge black hole and that's just the universe doing "two minus one" (cataclysmic event = "remove 1" from the neuro-galactic graph, just the time of a thought.) Maybe treants had it right all along.
So you may view galaxies as "neurotransmitters" of the universe, maybe. Or hormones. The big luminous nodes are the neurons, where all 'dark matter synapses' converge.
Perhaps what happens when over the short course of a few billion years, some "life" is taken from one node to another, is just a cosmic neuron doing its thing. Perhaps said life is just the equivalent of some positive ion charge, and it ends up blowing up the node into a huge black hole and that's just the universe doing "two minus one" (cataclysmic event = "remove 1" from the neuro-galactic graph, just the time of a thought.) Maybe treants had it right all along.
[1]: Finally found a good source. (thanks Filligree for pointing out the screensaver mishap) https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/virgo/millennium/
[2]: https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/virgo/millennium/...