What Makes Us Human

What is it that makes us human? Is it the simple transfer of electrical impulses in the mind, the firing between synapsis; or perhaps something more. Maybe what makes us human is something that cannot be defined or quantified with any sense of reason; perhaps it is merely a form of insanity for sanity is relative to the norm and how can we be sure that what we are is the norm, maybe the majority is not what is supposed to be normal. What if what makes us who we are is just an acceptable form of depravity. Maybe we're not human at all, what if we are in fact some un-earthly being imagining ourselves living as an unknown possibly non-existing extra terrestrial life form.

Some say what makes us human is morality, a sense of right and wrong; though in asking this we must address the question: "What is right and what is wrong?". Not in the sense of what constitutes an immoral act but in the sense of why is it wrong? As I look at our society that prizes originality I must ask; what is originality but more of the same? All that is wrong and right was determined by people that lived thousands of years before us thus making everything we do, say, or think in essence someone else's thought or fabrication. Some say that we determine right from wrong, that it is merely a feeling that we get, but who's to say that feeling is right? We have been told what is right and what is wrong from the time that we are born so inherently, we do not determine what is right and what is wrong, it is our parents that decide for us, and their parents for them, and so on and so forth all the way back to the beginning of civilization.