In the spirit of Schroedinger ("Life as anti-entropy"), I like the term Net Future Usefulness. Up until humans, living things (and I speculate, non-living matter) persisted or went extinct depending on their contributive 'fit' to the future usefulness (resources) around them. Humans are proud of the isolation mechanisms our clever ancestors invented ("too clever by half," as a Brit might say before shooting a newly discovered animal stealing a snack).

Rather than seeking the "Something" that is "out there" to discover and consume, we could be acknowledging the one thing only humans might contribute to Nature's sensible reality: a sense of future realities and intentional generosity to them.

Too many end up in the competitive consumtive Now, and at best, teach frugality (less consumption) rather than cooperative generosity (Increase). Peak Truth happened around the time the last man was named "Increase" in God's pastures on a continent that doesn't exist in the Bible.