If aliens saw us from a distance they would say that people are just like animals, only their inner control mechanism is more complicated and involved. We work with great skill in improving our lives but we are still the same animals, just a bit more developed. The question is, why do we even call ourselves human? After all, we are completely preoccupied with our bodies’ interests, and in this regard, we hardly differ from animals.
A human being, however, has an additional question: “What will happen after I die?” An animal doesn’t ask this question, whereas for the human, it is essential for raising himself above this life while still living in this world. In other words, one is given the question about the meaning of life in order to become a human being instead of remaining an animal. One becomes a human being when one begins to feel life outside one’s body whether it is living or dead, when one develops an ability to feel existence on the next level. A person needs to reach this state in the time between one’s birth and death. Essentially, this constitutes the meaning of one’s life.
Until we reach this level, we are animals, absolutely precisely programmed in our animal bodies within which we exist and with which we associate ourselves.
