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What's your conception of "humanity"? From my perspective, humanity feels wedged between the idea of intellectual ascendance and the rest of the Animal Kingdom. We have higher cognition, but it's predominantly shackled in service to our base instincts. For example, someone can be aware that they're lazy, but be unable to break from this condition. One can admit being reflexively emotional, yet unable to reign it in. The same goes for disputes and conflict; we have instinctive positions on issues due to genetics and external influence, but rarely the ability to break from our own views and examine things from more angles and at a higher level of objectivity. As it stands, "humanity" just feels like an advanced form of the monkey brain, in a philosophical sense to me.