The Options of Human Existence
There are three potential descriptions of human existence on Earth.
First. We will never understand or deliberately alter our existence. We will remain ignorant of our sensory input and sensory output. We will be only a natural propagating energy density that has temporarily emerged from the universal energy potential and will inevitably deplete back into it.
Second. We will not try to understand or alter all of our existence even though we are beginning to understand the nature of our sensory input and sensory output. We will be only a temporary evolving propagating energy density that has emerged from the universal energy potential, understood a minor part of its nature and existence, and has decided to accept the inevitability of depleting back into it.
Third. Humans will constantly strive to understand or optimize their existence and the total nature of their sensory input and sensory output. They will be an evolving propagating energy density that has emerged from the universal energy potential, and is determined to optimise its total nature and existence to allow it to constantly fight against its depletion back into the universal energy potential.
In the first description humans are a natural part of the universal energy flow, in balance with it. They will last as long as the environment around them lasts.
In the second they are beginning to alter their natural state and whilst gaining other ways to survive they are increasing their influence on the environment around them and so beginning to deplete natural resources at a greater rate. They will last as long as they can extract resources to survive.
In the third form of the description humans have decided to take full control of their survival by deciding to adapt all of universal nature to the purpose of their own survival even to the point of depleting those natural life forms and resources that maintain temporary human existence before searching out new resources.
The drive is towards the third option.