• Since the beginning of the universe with the Big Bang the universe has been evolving. Evolution is randomness that selects on what survives. Evolution is a property of the universe.


• Evolution creates complexity and that which is smarter tends to survive better. Thus evolution create intelligence. Failure to evolve intelligence leads eventually to extinction.


• We must continue to evolve. In order to survive we have to be able to deflect asteroids that would wipe us out. Eventually we have to adapt to a changing planet and get off this planet and move out into space. In order to do that we will have to understand a lot more about reality than we do now. Failure to do so means extinction.


• We evolved from the universe. We are a creation of the universe's evolutionary process. We have evolved to where we can contemplate the universe. We are really the universe contemplating itself. The universe becomes self aware through us. We are the process through which reality becomes self aware.


• If there are other intelligent civilizations in the universe the same rules apply to them. They too are the universe becoming self aware and if they stop evolving they too will become extinct. The only survivors are those who learn to live in Right Relationship with Reality.


• Although we are individual people, we function as a huge single organism that is some 4 billion years old. Humanity understands reality collectively through a group effort and our collective technology. Our understanding of reality is our Tree of Knowledge. Our species is interdependent on other life forms on this planet and on the planet itself. Our survival depends not just our individual lives but life on this planet as a whole. Otherwise we collectively face extinction.


• Humanity is turning the corner into a new evolutionary paradigm where we will be switching to engineered evolution. We will choose what we will evolve into. We will design the future of life on this planet.


• We have already evolved to be dependent on our machines and our technologies to survive. It is accurate to look at humanity as being a partially machine based species. As we evolve our technology will play a more and more important role in what we are. We could evolve into a completely machine based life form. Such a life form would be a child species.


• The better choices we make the more likely we are to survive. We can make better choices abut where we're going if we understand who we are and what our purpose is. When we know our purpose then we have a goal and a direction to guide our decisions so that we survive and thrive. If we fail to understand our purpose we night make bad choices that lead to our extinction.


• If we choose to survive then realizing that our purpose is to be the mechanism for which reality understands itself must become the basis for the moral foundation of society. This purpose gives us a direction and a goal, something to live for, something to help us make the important decisions that will determine our future. It gives us an objective basis for deciding what is right and wrong. It gives us hope and a vision towards the future.

Our purpose is to be the mechanism whereby reality becomes self aware. Our understanding of reality must grow over time. All other paths lead to extinction.