Indifference still doesn’t feel like the right word, because there is a connotative implication that the universe is choosing indifference, or that it could be otherwise. It still seems to lean towards ascribing entity to the universe. In this context it is better, I think, to think of the universe as simply existence.
The universe is not a thing. It’s just a word we made up to describe all the things and the stuff in between. If your mum or your neighbor or even you yourself cares about you, that is the universe caring.
Indifference is worse than cruelty and hate.
The universe is indifferent to our suffering, because it has no cognition.
Indifference still doesn’t feel like the right word, because there is a connotative implication that the universe is choosing indifference, or that it could be otherwise. It still seems to lean towards ascribing entity to the universe. In this context it is better, I think, to think of the universe as simply existence.
The universe is not a thing. It’s just a word we made up to describe all the things and the stuff in between. If your mum or your neighbor or even you yourself cares about you, that is the universe caring.