island wrote:

The fact that human being attempts to mix all levels in nature indicates
that intelligent life is at least one of nature's preferred methods for
accomplishing its ultimate task.

[Moderator's note: I think that island is saying that life is
entropically favored. (Which may or may not be true.)
I hope that the "ultimate task" referred to above is supposed
to be nothing else than the second law of thermodynamics and
that hence this posting is not "overly speculative". - usc]

You are quite correct in your hope. In fact, the Principle of Least
Action would have to require it on some scale like, N=10^79, and so "all
levels" and "universal" are key points here, I think.