Quoting Craig Mod once more:

Everyone was uniquely nuts. Each human contained their own special crazy. This was humanity’s gift to the universe. Humans were the “sensory organs” of the cosmos. The walker liked this framing — the purpose of humans was to meta-cognitize the universe itself. So to be, to observe, was to fulfill. If you thought about it like that, things were a lot less pressing.

Another excerpt from his ongoing (and lovely) pop-up newsletter, Between Two Mountains.

BTW, I think the origin of that framing is Carl Sagan: “We are a way for the universe to know itself”.

I am also reminded of a video short by Jason Silva that I watched about ten years ago (and which lived rent-free in my mind ever since for some reason), “Humans are the Sex Organs of Technology”. Different topic, sure, yet equally wild.

The ideas of humanity as a witness, or a parent/ midwife for something else to emerge are kind of mindbending.