What does ecological niche reinforce about the significance of existence, life?
Part II of II
There is far more to the human organism than described by the physical niche it fills.
There is the spiritual side of humanity, the idealistic side, the aspect of humanity wrapped in dreams, hopes, and sense of connection to something beyond the boundaries of the universe.
The physical aspect of the universe creates ecological niches that living organisms with ‘local’ awareness fill.
But humanity seems to have more than local awareness.
Humanity seems to have a sense of, a possible connection to, a form of universal awareness that goes far beyond the physical universe within which we function.
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We acknowledge the existence of our universe as an absolute in terms of perceiving its existence.
In addition, we acknowledge the existence of life existing within the niches created by the physical aspect of the universe.
Both define each other.
If there is more to existence than the physical universe and life, and if life and the universe exist within ‘something’ that lies beyond the boundaries of the universe, then both the universe and life would seem to have a function within and to this ‘thing’ within which they lie.
Studying the two, life and the physical aspect of the universe, should help us understand what lies beyond the universe.
But we need more information than what we observe about life and the universe.
We need to also study the strong sense of purpose of humanity.