Evolution of Intellect

Could the universe be so vast and contain so much knowledge that the universe itself has intellect? We are a complex creation, as humans we have something we like to term intelligence. Intelligence is based off how aware of our surroundings we are, a dog, for instance, is fairly aware if it's surroundings; it can distinguish between self and not self, and can plan ahead, and react to things around it, but a human is so aware of its surroundings that we have began to contemplate  not only our surroundings but ourselves. We have developed to contemplate a massive amount of information. According to evolutional and modern science, we evolved because of the massive amount of information needed to survive. We developed so many connections between so many millions of cells that we began to contemplate our own individual existence. Assuming that theory, what about the universe with so many massive connections? There are Trillions and trillions of stars and billions upon billions of galaxies all interacting and effecting each other. What if there connections are the connections of a massive intellect? What if the universe had thought and autonomy. What if there is an intellect presiding over the universe? What seems like trillions of miles of distance to us, is really just the gaps between massive connections inside the intellect of an ultimate being?

Evolution claims that because we are made up of so many connections and all being tied to our brain that intelligence was the natural result, and in fact required. So than the universe, having more connections than the human body could ever hope for would be required to have intellect. I prepose that maybe that is what God is. Not that He is the universe, but that the universe is his thought. The universe requires this free will agent. In terms of evolution the universe created us to understand, to experience and to discover. It required us to exist in order to contemplate itself. Everything in the universe is a representation of this supreme intellect. All things  created exist to explain the nonexistent, just as our brains contain information that describes who we are. If you stimulate a certain part of our brain it will manifest a part of us, a memory, a sense, a taste, a movement. It describes who we are. Maybe the study of the universe is the study of massive intellect. We study physics and it reveals an emotion, a memory, a thought, etc etc. We study philosophy and yet another part of this intellect is revealed. Slowly but surely the character of an individual begins to develop. What if the universe is the mind of a god, set here for us to study? A thought to wonder for sure.