The human mind can only collect knowledge, which are facts, devoid of wisdom, truth or love. The journey of life is coming to be a master of your thought and your thought processes. It is a continuing method of throwing out that which is no longer useful and opening to that which is yet unknown - giving up the old for the new. Either we change or we go extinct is not true, for any change is not necessarily wise or good. The truth is either we change and evolve or we go extinct .
Wisdom is inherent in evolution, as a wise change supports all life and is good for all.
Either we do this or we can do that. The limitation of only two choices comes from the body of knowledge we have. Think about this for just a minute. When my son was small, he would come home with a tale of trouble at school, and so I'd ask what happened. He'd look blankly for awhile, screw up his little face and slowly stretch himself gradually creating other possibilities.