Monday, October 4, 2010

Why Are We Human?

The opening lines of the movie, 'Stardust' say this: Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?

Though on simple level it is quite a ridiculous question, when you really begin to think about it on a philosophical level what truly makes us humans? What makes us the creatures we are today?

Do we lay in the grass in the summer time imagining the clouds to be different shapes, or do we see them as the different shapes because we are human?
What makes us the beings we are? Not the biological answers or the biochemistry answers that say were are carbon based life forms with a brain and a heart and cells. But what makes us tick deeper than the biological make up of our body.

I believe its our curiosity to learn, to imagine, to grow. Without this driving need to rediscover we would still be in the caves cold and without clothing. I believe this inner working in our brain silently drive our civilization to aspire and grow.

I'm sure that someone else out there disagrees with me. But I believe we gaze at them because we are human.

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