What does the conceptual framework of ecological niche imply about the universe within which we live?
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...We are continually in the process of seeking new ideas, new knowledge, new experiences, new levels of control over nature, social development, survivability, exploration, and understanding.
No matter how successful we seem to be in terms of filling a particular ecological niche, we strive to move on and find new challenges and adventures both as individuals and as a species.
We are never content.
A zebra is a zebra is a zebra.
It does not appear to ever consciously seek out new ecological niches to fill.
It does not appear to consciously develop itself in order to move into a different environment.
For the most part, it stays within the niche it evolved into.
It may, on rare occasion, mutate to fit a new niche, but it does not consciously seek to do so.
We, on the other hand, relish the thought of diving to the far depths of the oceans, walking on the moon, and communicating with parallel universes we do not even know exist.
If all living things fill niches, then what is our niche?
It appears our niche may be tied to something other than niches formed within the universe itself.
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Studying a niche created by the universe is one way to understand a living organism.
Studying a living organism is one way of understanding its niche.
Humanity’s constant search for eternity may well be able to tell us something about the limits of the universe itself and what lies beyond.
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