building on your thinking... what if humans are merely a point on an unfurling of intelligence/hacking, which will eventually reach its natural end, as all things do? just like the universe will as well; it couldn't foresee how its processes will yield its end

We don't exactly know the nature of 'The Great Filter'.

But maybe we'll find out.

Sure, but what about it?

As the member of a species being extinct, I wouldn't like it and just "roll with it". Same way a race being told that they're there to serve, and if needed, be extinct to bring forward some other entity wouldn't.

Until we reach that "natural end" we shouldn't go "gently into that good night".

> we shouldn't go "gently into that good night

concur. the challenge in front of us (and always has been) to surf the waves we can find in this universe