Bio-Centricity: What is to be/not to be a human?

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The seeker:
Where can we draw the line between living like a human and actually being a human? 

The inner seeker:
This can be a classical debate or a modern epistemological understanding. Whatever it is, there is an constant sublime question about what is to be a human. Who is a human?


With the outbreak of internet, we have been exposed to numerous act of kindness and sense aphrodisiac by the animals, just a little bit of googling and youtubing, everyone can find them. Animals portray those characters that we consider to be humane. And some human don't. So, who is a human? The animal with sensitivity toward a collective life or the man with absolutely no regards to sensitivity of others. 

Does being able to speak, make us a human? Is that the criteria? 

In 1884, Dr Gustav Theodor Fechner, a German experimental psychologist suggested of an idea in which he explained that animals are sentient beings. For the first time, beyond alchemy, in regards to chemistry, modern world got a glimpse of Bio-Communication. Around 1900, Bengali scientist, Jagdish Chandra Bose, conducted numerous experiments on plant. He concluded that plants have a complex grid of nervous system. And they actually responded to shocks and external impressions through spasms, George Bernard Shaw who visited Bose's laboratory was shocked to see the sheer intensity and beauty of his work. We have many other recent examples in relation to plant consciousness. And their capacity to communicate. 

Plants seem to be just like those aliens SETI is searching elsewhere in the universe. Once we discover the right medium and instrument. We might get an answers or a reply to those songs played to the universe. Just like that once we discover the right medium and instrument, we might be able to communicate with the plants. 

May be like in the movie 'Guardian of the Galaxy', Groot has a conscious understanding and sentiments but cannot say more that 'I AM GROOT'. The plants around us are looking at us with surprise and thinking why are these humans not understanding us. 

So does that make a plant a human because they surely have some level of communication? 

In a personal note, somedays I feel like a bug. Searching desperately for a day's survival. Or even a rock. Just being in silence and letting life form. 

In Sanatana Dharma, Man is both chit and achit, conscious and unconscious. That chit is ever so present in a rock, as well as the plant or the speck of dust. 

But what is to be a human? Consciousness is a dead thread. Polarization of the mind is a clogged analogy. Any other mumbo zombo of science is a criterion of satisfaction. As Mckenna said, humans don't know anything. We think we do, but what do we know.

What is to know that which is known to the universe but not to us, but at the same time being the same universe which we are trying to know. Can we swallow our tongue? 

Do you know we share around 50% similarity in our DNA with a Banana plant. Does that make us 50% Bananas?

The Observer:
Fools. Shut up, close your eyes. Ether.

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