First of all, "nature" does nothing without a purpose, even if we don't understand that purpose or consider that purpose insignificant. Second, ELEs (Extinction-Level Events) are extraordinarily common throughout the universe, which is probably why we haven't been contacted by aliens--they went extinct long before they could develop the technology to cross unimaginable distances between stars.


That makes humanity special in that we're still here and not yet extinct.


As for that purpose of nature, everything through out all of creation utilizes fractal mathematics. Over and over at smaller and smaller, and larger and larger scales. This repeating correlation seems to end at about 350 million light years out--doesn't mean that Pattern ends, it just becomes too large for us to comprehend with our current level of technology.


Not only that, but it's been proven recently that large swarms of lesser intelligence animalia will generate spontaneously a higher order of intelligence when in swarms--fish, birds, etc., all do this. This is in violation of the second law of thermodynamics, and is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. Order does not proceed from chaos. And yet, there it is. It is my belief that humans are undergoing the same process over a geological time period (i.e., a long time). There are seven billion people on earth, and it's as though humanity is beginning to become "self-aware" as a single organism. I believe this same can apply to even galaxies themselves--what's to say that such a huge collection of energy (made of smaller constituent parts) is not in the process of becoming self-aware? Perhaps this energy field is of creation is competing against the energy fields of entropy? There's your good and evil.


The Simpsons even referenced this in their universe couch gag:



That reality is holographic in nature is incontrovertible; that our brains store memories holographically is also incontrovertible, thanks to the work of Karl Pribram in the 80s and the work of David Bohm in the 60s. Even Karl Lashley from the 1920s found this to be true, though he couldn't say why.


That we live in a binary universe is also near-incontrovertible. There are two poles in the universe: negative and positive. Not three, not five. Two. That fractals are utilized by nature is also incontrovertible.

All of these facts point to the fact that there is more than meets the eye to our reality. Even Plato, long before theoretical physicists came along, suggested that the reality we see is not the reality that exists by using the cave analogy. We live in a cave, looking at shadows being cast on the wall from the light behind us. The shadows we think make up reality are nothing but a fuzzy outline reflected from something outside of our perception.

Nature made us evolve to recognize patterns for a purpose; we have only to live long enough as a species to figure out why, and that means we have to ensure that we don't wipe ourselves out the way other alien civilizations (if they ever existed) undoubtedly have because of how common ELEs are. And if you think they're not, you may want to give this video a watch: