the basic core or root of philosophy is that:

we don't know where we came from.

we don't know where we are,

and most certainly we don't know where we're going next.

it's been that way pretty much from the beginning.

man in his awareness & consciousness has used imagination to help himself along.

the fact that humans, but not the other apes can build cathedrals, go to the moon, etc. is no small thing.