The leaf cutter ant does not know why it spends every waking moment of its life laboring. But the end result of its labors is a habitat for the colony that is so sophisticated it uses the thermal effects of its inhabitants to drive a thermally stable fermentation process, allowing the simple gut of the ant to consume cellulose.

We are, like the leafcutter ant, assembling a machine that embodies our ultimate purpose even as we cannot comprehend that objective. Do you know what that machine does?