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"For a clever fish, water is “just right“ for it to swim in. Had it been too cold, it would freeze; too hot, it would boil. Surely the water temperature had to be just right for the fish to exist. “I’m very important. My existence cannot be an accident,” the proud fish would conclude.
Well, he is not very important. He is just a clever fish. The ocean temperature is not being controlled with the purpose of making it possible for it to exist. Quite the opposite: the fish is fragile. A sudden or gradual temperature swing would kill it, as any trout fisherman knows.
We so crave for meaningful connections that we see them even when they are not there. The gravest mistake we can make is to think that the cosmos has plans for us, that we are somehow special from a cosmic perspective."
- Marcelo Gleiser, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College, on Human Perspective...
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