An analogy... I live in Australia, here there are endless straight highways through the outback. Beside the highway there are thousands of huge termite mounds with thousands upon thousands of termites in each one. Termites live a pretty organised and civilised life in their mound, they even probably wander onto the highway a fair bit, but have no idea what they have walked on to, or furthermore conceive the big picture of what the purpose of the highway is or even that a city or town is at the end. The analogy is of course that we are the termites, and the universe is the highway, outback, roads and cities. It would take quite an inconceivable leap for a termite to stumble onto the beginning of the meaning of the highway, let alone everything else.