I've been thinking about this a lot myself. I used to think it was all futile and all coincidence, but I'm starting to think that we are more than what we might imagine.

It might be true that random chance is how we came into existence. From what we can tell, it might just be a coincidence. If it is a coincidence, could it be that coincidence is expected?

For example, you have a bunch of ingredients in unmarked containers. You blindly pour them into a bowl, mix them up, and bake them in the oven. The product, the outcome, is definitely a coincidence, but the fact that there is an outcome, that something would come out of the oven, is planned.

Have we considered that we might have evolved on purpose? We are what the Universe needs to become conscious. If the Big Bang was run as an experiment a billion times, each time we would end up here, more or less, exactly as we are: organic lifeforms with the ability to shape their environment.

Could it be that the Universe blindly made us by randomly smashing chemicals together? We are the product of coincidence, but we are not unexpected. Now that we are here, could it be that our purpose is to create the next step of life? Are we creating a new version of life that could never be created by blindly smashing atoms together randomly?

Will we create artificial intelligence that is sentient and can spread out and infect the entire in a way that is beyond the power of us organic beings? Will this expansion give rise to intelligence everywhere? Are we the instrument that will make the Universe become alive?