John my guess at “what we are” goes along in the direction I think you are suggesting. We have the illusion of separateness but are inarguably and self-evident part of a timeless seamless whole. Anyone who doubts that can talk to a 7 year old who will ask “what was before that?”, “what is after that?”, “ what is beyond that?”, “if that’s the smallest thing what it is it made up of?”. Quickly we are faced with that most awkward self-evident concept, infinity. There is nothing “wrong” with “node” perspective, our ego gets keeps us on the proper side of the road for the country we are in and gets us to work or school on the right date and time. Our star the sun uses gravity to keep pulling in nodally on itself generating enough collision to go into nuclear fusion and fission and eventually in some cases form elements. And, it is all interconnected and interdependent for us to have complex systems and development counter to entropy.

My guess is if we (as Homo sapiens, “wise men”) don’t move our consciousness from less nodal to more interconnected, systemic, networked, organic … we will go extinct. The rest of this cosmos will go on, finding balance. I prefer to be part of the balance, I don’t know if I will do the work and behaviors to be part of the solution that is in the demonstration not the theory.