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The thing that is most human about us is this intense desire for control. As such, in my opinion, new knowledge builds on our humanness - and our ego - to know that you have discovered something no one has is an intense feeling.

As to my theory on control, and science building our humanness - we're control freaks, so to say. We try to achieve many things, and by these achievements, we can control other things. Over the weekend, I watched a Bollywood film called Fashion - it basically showed what happens to a person, the mental and physical breakdowns that occur when we don't have any control. My mind works in random tangents, and this made me think about the Miss Universe beauty peagents. Who are we to judge who's the fairest in the universe? We're just on earth! And here we are again trying to control things - we don't know if there is life beyond earth, but we're human and just because we have a more cephalized and formed brain than others, we assume we're the center of the universe. 

The peagent is just one of many examples where we try to take control - if we look at history, we see all the kingdoms being ruled - which shows we even like to control our fellow humans. It may have something to do with survival of the fittest, but isn't that about who has control in the end? The most fit? the alpha being? ie. the control freak?

I know I'm slightly denouncing the human race, but all this science, education, philosohy - it all stems from control. If we can't control our emotions, we have a mantal disorder - that reasons out our lack of control. I really hope that I'm making sense on this theory of control.

we want to control, and so we need to understand, and when we understand, we gain more control - and so we become even more human.