Okaaayy.
So reading through this thread, my brain is like whaaa?
So, from the original post, I was confused.
You call it Rumpelstiltskin because he split in two? But your theory is about things wanting to be stable and wanting to survive? As if they are living? Which I get but, this contradicts the Rumpelstiltskin name right?
Anyway...
To focus on the point...
Is the universe alive at the atomic scale?
I have to agree somewhat.
I wouldn't even begin to try to comprehend an equation for that. I don't think the dynamics of the quantum universe can be wrapped up in one simple equation. Heck, even human life can't be.
But, the universe has a lot of symmetry and there are fractals everywhere, who's to say that doesn't extend beyond the field we experience.
I wonder if Earth is a living creature. It has a heart beat apparently, and em field like our brains, iron blood (the core) which bleeds out of volcanos, lots of villi (trees), bacteria/parasites living on it that both hurt it and help it live (like the bacteria in our guts). It has cycles.