There is an ongoing debate about how similar the Universe is to the brain. Astrophysicist Franco Vazza, along with a neuroscientist recently conducted a quantitative analysis which adds more evidence of the unusual similarities.
just in case you had missed it, a discussion on this topic (roughly three weeks ago) could be found here...
Thanks for sharing the link, I missed that interesting discussion. I think there is a lot of material on both sides of the argument to be discussed and this post nicely ties much of that in as well.