I see where you are going, I think. And speaking thinking, you're one of my favorite thinkers here on Medium, despite our being at daggers drawn from time to time.
We project ourselves into the future via stories. I believe other living creatures do some of this as well. For example, my cats, starting at about 3 or 4 pm, clearly project themselves forward to 6 when they will be fed.
But only humans project ourselves so far and in such in such detail. Science fiction writers project us to the far future of galaxy-spanning civilization, using yet unknown technology to overcome what appear to be fundamental constraints on the possible, such as the speed of light.
Could inconvenient scientific facts of that sort--relativity, quantum theory, the utter breakdown of understanding at the event horizon of a black hole--be messages from the universe telling us that our storytelling ability falls short of the ability to encompass things-as-they-are? We did not need to know about such things to survive on the savanna. But we needed this ability to project into the future. It has proved powerful enough to take us way beyond our immediate needs--for good and I'll.
As Steve Ruis points out, we need humility such as other cultures possessed before nature bitch slaps us a good one.