By dinoman82
 

Oh this is an interessting design, very neat! And thank you for the compliment, much appreciated and means a lot :D

By Xenomorpher123
 

That is actually a really unique idea... it could actually be possible however.

By R13426
 

a government becomes complex enough to gain its own sentience, and finally an interstellar civilization forms enough connections (synapses) between enough planetary systems that the galaxy itself functions as a large self aware brain?

By R13426
 

I'm not referring to the stars themselves, but this is what I mean: every cell is controlled by a nucleus, and every multicell organism is controlled by a brain. Every sentient organism is regulated by a government, but suppose one day