I believe an organism only comprehends within it's own physical potential. Does a cow envy a humans cleanliness, uprightness, and variety of foods to eat? Does a plant know how much it's missing out not being a mammal and being able to walk all the way across the grass to the food on the other side? Do house cats and dogs seem more eager to learn to design, tinker, and manipulate it's surroundings like it's owner, or simply run free and explore?
Now what about this: Humans at their utmost potential mainly express themselves mostly in abstraction and usually create in the process. They also have a tendency to try playing God. We like to create stories of power, Godliness, super-humanism, freedom, and wish we could live basically forever. We fear death, not because of instinct or pain, but because we don't understand it. We fear the unknown, and envy that which is all-powerful. We ENVY the all-powerful, and either consciously or unconsciously strive for it continually.
Plus we're the only race on earth which has somehow evolved so quickly to the point we're perpetually upright, perpetually hairless, use technological substitutes for instinct or physical limitations, and despite our physical weakness, are currently managing every other race on the planet, and yet it's not enough. We're still begging for more. We can't be aliens because we live off the planet too well, and we couldn't have branched from the same organisms we live with because we're a millennium ahead of them.
It's almost like we're all veterans who all lost our limbs some time ago, and are going mad from lack of ability. But did we lose them, or have we even developed them yet?
What are we? What are we working for?
Believe in yourself.
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