People want answers, not truths. That's why there are so many priests and politicians, while the philosophers are intellectually neutered and confined to the back alleys of academia, to beat the same dead horses, over and over again.

It's not so much human nature versus nature, but culture versus nature.

To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience.

That's because the function of culture is to synchronize communities into a larger, emergent social organism, that effectively functions as one.

Nature is not indifferent, because that assumes some objective perspective of the entire universe. It's an oxymoron. Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

This Nietzschian will to power, top down nature and its indifferent view of life and reality is still implicitly monotheistic. That there is some overlord, some platonic ideal, toward which we are striving, as imperfect copies. Rather than life just bubbling up, becoming most intoxicated at the peak of the wave, as positive feedback turns negative and the centripetal effect of synchronization turns to the centrifugal dynamic, as the energies break down and radiate back out, harmonizing across the universe. Leaving us grasping for more, as ego overrides judgement.

Organisms in the ecosystem, nodes in the network.

Without the ups and downs, it's a flatline.

The price we pay to feel, is that a lot of it is pain. The price we pay to think is that it is subjective.

Consciousness goes past to future, as thoughts go future to past. Like the projector light goes past to future frames, as the frames go future to past.