I got caught up when I was reading the chapter “Aristotle” in Sophie’s World. On the very last page Sophie is talking to her mother about why people are alive. Sophie then states, “People live on this planet so that someone can go around giving names to everything.” I remember back when I went to Sunday School and we learned how Adam was in charge of naming every animal on the planet. Did that make him the first human then? Are we really only here to identify new things? I don’t think so.
However, Sophie’s next comment proved more true to me: “…because a human is a thinking animal. If you don’t think, you’re not really a human.” Is that really the only distinction in what makes us human? Research has proved that animals do have thoughts; however, they aren’t as complex or interesting as human beings are. I think that the fact that humans have the ability to have complex/interesting thoughts makes us the most advanced, but not necessarily human. There could be an undiscovered species out there that is just as advanced as we are or even more so. What if there was another animal out there that had thoughts just like ours, also, but we just didn’t know about it? It’s really just all a mystery that may never be solved.
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