Redefining human

The definition of human has stayed static for a million years, a bi-pedal animal with narrow objectives — food and sex, in the grand tradition of the animal kingdom that broke away from plants to become mobile. Their domination of the distressed blue planet, however, was total. Unlike their predecessors who killed for food, they killed for fun. And, they killed their own kind, anything that looked like them and everything else. Unlike other animals that had pure two factor objective functions, the quirky human brain afforded a third, the ability to destroy just for the sake of it.

Physics remains puzzled at Biology. The apparent requirement of an unambiguously increasing entropy seems to have herded chemicals together to create simple biology and then more complex ones. The arrival of the human animal with a taste for destruction could be understood in the context of the same universal requirement. If so, contemporary humans could lead to more potent animals as time progresses. Their unwieldy brain that shows signs of suboptimal performance by abstract thoughts, unproductive art and undefinable glamor, may have peaked. Humans without the baggage of an unpredictable brain could be more efficient to satisfy the needs of the universe.

There are signs of trouble. Has she been spoiled by her gaze upon the stars? Has she been rendered less destructive by her observations of nature? Has she been paralyzed by engaging in art, music and literature? Has science and religion pushed her into dark and lonely corners of knowledge and empathy? Has she become incapable of carrying the flag of accelerating entropy for the universe?

Does the human need a redefinition?