What does ecological niche reinforce about the significance of existence, life?
Part I of II
Niches reinforce the concept of belonging.
Organisms are members of the universe. Organisms fill a place created within the universe.
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Does humanity belong and, if it does, to what does it belong?
Organisms fill ecological niches within a universe and, when studied, the niche they fill can be understood both generally and in great detail.
The same concept applies to life.
Even if a life form were removed to an environment totally alien to them, biologists could gain great insight into the nature of the surrounding within which that life existed just by studying the life form.
The same applies to humans.
When studying the human biological organism, both body and brain, one could learn much about the individual’s and the species’ environment.
But one would have little insight into the motivation, drives, conscious needs, and desires on an intellectual level unless one also examined the accomplishments, hope, dreams, and knowledge the human organism had established