What it is to be human

Let me start off by saying that its 10 in the morning and I haven't slept all night.  That's half the reaason I'm making this blog in the first place.  I just thought maybe I could be so boring that I'd bore my self to sleep ;p.  Really though, I just saw something that really made me think about what it is to be human.  I can't really say whether there was a certain point we achieved "consciousness" or whether it was a gradual development; i suspect the latter although there are only a handful of animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.  But, suffice it to say, we have been questioning who we are for a long time, or i guess a very short time in the history of the universe.  There is a certain absurdity in trying to understand ourselves with our own mind which is part of ourselves(i guess you would call it a metaanalysis of cognition or some such thing).  I do, however, believe that humans tend to make generalizations and sometimes these generalizations can be very helpful in understanding the big picture, and other times they funnel our understanding until what we are seeing is just a remote corner of that same picture.  So that's just the preface to what I really wanted to say.  Does race exist?  In a sense it does, because we believe it does.  I am half "asian" for example.  I don't feel particularly "asian."  Polititians often attempt to garner the vote of this supposed conglomeration of "asians."  But I would like to take a trip to North Korea and ask Kim Jong Ill to make overatures to South Korea, and Japan and China for that matter.  Cmon.  They'e all Asian.  So, in a sense race exists.  In a sense, it doesn't.  So there are black people.  There are people that have similar genes to those of the same lineage but may be albino.  There are males.  And there are hermaphrodites.  Some people are Gay.  Some are bisexual.  For any category of person you can think of, there is someone out there who doesn't quite fit the mold.  So what is being human?  Is there a human nature?  What can we say about humans?  And really the only thing we can say, is that we can't reproduce with any other species.  I don't fully understand speciation all that well or genetics, but even to say that is a generalization of the mind.  Nothing I just said is all that revolutionary.  It doesn't take a great leap of intelligence to imagine that we cannot know whether how we perceive the world is due to the senses we feel or the way the brain happened in evolutionary stages or whatever.  We can't know (for now, because anything is possible) but for my own erudition, the bigger breadth of knowledge you have, the better.  So, when I stumbled upon the youtube video of these siamese twins, I could'nt get it out of my mind.  I didn't particularly like the fact that the video (maybe not on the link that i have on this site) said it was a two headed girl, because its absolutely not.  It is two girls who because of genetic roulette, share a single body.  I'm usually a bit morose, and melancholy or just plain depressed about life.  I hate my job.  I get frustrated that I don't have ideas that are original, and that I just don't seem to have a genuine passion for life.  All the while, it just takes one documentary about the gaza strip, or a vegan propaganda movie to remind me that I should be a bit more grateful than I am.  And you watch these two girls, who have what i consider to stretch beyond what I have ever thought possible, the human condition.  One of the twins quipped that at least she never got lonely.  And i thought that was a beautiful statement.  And as strange as it is to have a condition as they have, that they seem happy.  So I guess, I feel a bit better now, not because I see that others are more unfortunate than me, but because even when faced with hardships I could not conceive of, that they make it work.  So, to make this sound like a 5th grade essay:

In conclusion,  siamese twins, people lacking their senses, Savants, people with autism, Transgendered people and whatever sort of human that is and will ever be, is a testament to the rainbow of diversity in all of our lives.  Feel free to grade my essay, if you want. 

Also, i noticed i typoed the word overature when it should have been overture.  Im not gonna worry too much about that stuff.  ill proof read, but if it makes sense, im not gonna bother with spelling as the purpose of writing is mostly to communicate thoughts and ideas.