  Where does it all come from? Where are we going? Are we alone in the
universe? What is good and what is evil? The scientific narrative of cosmic
evolution demands that we tackle such big questions with a cosmological
perspective. I tackle the first question in Chapters 4-6; the second in
Chapters 7-8; the third in Chapter 9 and the fourth in Chapter 10. However,
where do we start to answer such questions? In Chapters 1-3, I elaborate the
concept of worldview and argue that we should aim at constructing comprehensive
and coherent worldviews. In Chapter 4, I identify seven fundamental challenges
to any ultimate explanation. I conclude that our explanations tend to fall in
two cognitive attractors, the point or the cycle. In Chapter 5, I focus on the
free parameters issue, while Chapter 6 is a critical analysis of the
fine-tuning issue. I conclude that fine-tuning is a conjecture and that we need
to further study how typical our universe is. This opens a research endeavor
that I call artificial cosmogenesis. In Chapter 7, I show the importance of
artificial cosmogenesis from extrapolating the future of scientific
simulations. I then analyze two other evolutionary explanations of fine-tuning
in Chapter 8: Cosmological Natural Selection and the broader scenario of
Cosmological Artificial Selection. In Chapter 9, I inquire into the search for
extraterrestrials and conclude that some binary star systems are good
candidates. Since those putative beings feed on stars, I call them starivores.
The question of their artificiality remains open, but I propose a prize to
further continue and motivate the scientific assessment of this hypothesis. In
Chapter 10, I explore foundations to build a cosmological ethics and conclude
that the ultimate good is the infinite continuation of the evolutionary
process. Appendix I summarizes my position and Appendix II provides
argumentative maps of the entire thesis.
