So, a little while ago I held a conversation with my room mate on what we thought would be mankinds greatest achievement. Although we disagreed on what the greatest achievement would be, we ended up getting a really philosophical debate. It turned out that both of us, and indeed other people as well, believe mankinds ultimate achievement is to achieve some kind of permanence in the universe. Both of us viewed that if mankind could make a significant impact into the universe, then we would have achieved greatness, and I was wondering why people want to make an impact so much. I thought about this for a while afterwards and decided that we try to do this because we don't want to feel like everything we do is meaningless and therefore try to change the universe in some way shape or form.
Why does mankind try to prove it's importance by altering the universe when the universe is a nonsentient, uncaring, object?
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