To understand who we are, how we tick and what makes us tock

You see a person is unique, for an animal and a person share much in common, in fact we and chimpanzees (our closest animal cousin) share 98 % similar DNA – our hearts, bodies, function very similarly; believe it or not, we share 30% percent dna with a worm – yep, you heard right, you and a worm have 30% functional abilities that are exactly the same.

So where do we go different?

The primary difference is in the prefrontal lobes which all animals lack.

The prefrontal lobes quite simply is the mind, as it can equate, independent of our emotions.

You see, if all you can do is feel emotions, say hunger, pleasure; you basically would be an animal, for hunger / pain would cause you to have one reaction, pleasure another; and this is similar to how a little baby works, hunger = cry, pleasure = laugh.

But as studies show, around the year of two, a human out-surpasses in intelligence even a grown ape, for we are not only capable of greater wisdom, more importantly, it’s the type of reasoning we are unique in, an ability to see things independent to how we feel (that being said, for this to occur, a child must go through the terrible twos and be educated that s/he is not the boss of the world, for otherwise their irrational ego, assumes they are, and they are incapable of empathetic feelings as seen in spoiled children.)

So the human then assumes an identity – the identity is primarily the role-modeling of a similar gender, parent, caregiver; the identity will change or grow or merge as the person learns more and more new role-models emerge (which is a problem, when fake identities such as Hollywood movies depicting unreal scenarios become real identities, as the adage, “life always imitates Hollywood.”)

So be that as it may, who we are, is now two people – it is the animal and it is the rational – the rational has assumed an identity.

But behind both the animal and rational lies a third supreme being, God, our soul (sometimes called our heart) our independent observer of good and evil which of course, is our compassionate side.

So while both our animal and identity are largely self-serving, though identity can regulate animal (something animals lack) the third being in us, has a different agenda; continually trying to distinguish between good and evil, it seeks goodness and kindness.