Like an explosive awaiting a spark, unimaginably numerous environments in the universe are waiting out there for eons on end, doing nothing at all or blindly generating evidence and storing it up or pouring it out into space. Almost any of them would if the right knowledge ever reached it, instantly and irrevocably burst into a radically different type of physical activity: intense knowledge-creation, displaying all the various kinds of complexity, universality, and reach that is inherent in the laws of nature, and transforming that environment from what is typical today into what could become typical in the future. If we want to, we could be that spark.

― David Deutsch