Why were we born as humans?

[This ruined Sonic]

We aren't we any other living beings?

 

[Joe Swanson]

There's a million different religious and philosophical explanations, but it's not worth worrying about. Your parents fucked and consciousness/a mind/a soul is necessary for being human so you exist

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

How do you know what we are?

 

[Dialtone]

We don't really know how brains work, and it's implied consciousness is a form of energy, it's possible humans evolved in some way to become vessels.

 

[Troonos]

Try rewriting that, but in English.

 

[Mega Negroid Gyroid]

you were born ESL

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Because that isn't how genetics and embryology works?

 

[Jack O'Lantern]

Only White people are humans.

 

[We Are The Witches]

You mean.... "why" not "we"... (sigh)

 

[Dysnomia]

Because in this life you were meant to be human. If you had been something else instead then you wouldn't be experiencing what you are experiencing now. The life you are meant to have. I've heard that it's more common to be reincarnated as an animal then a human. I don't know how true it is. Just be happy you have opposable thumbs and can use the internet.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

We were we born as humans? We aren't we any other living things? We weren't we born as pigeons? We were we we we first walked on land? Lizards? If we were born as cats, would we develop society? Catsiety?

Also ongoing consciousness is an illusion that's arisen for the benefit of natural selection. You just think you are you, and also were born a human. Don't fall for tricks. You aren't real.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

I spawned off of a dank locker room floor. IDK about the rest of yall

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

You did bad last time so God decided to put your spawn in Brazil.

 

[Devout Muslim]

This is the dumbest fucking question imaginable. Every time I hear it I’m reminded that statistically 70% of the population is stupid. You could only have been who you are. As the Italians say, if your grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle.

 

[Inco G. Nito]

This is the dumbest fucking question imaginable. Every time I hear it I’m reminded that statistically 70% of the population is stupid.

Also ongoing consciousness is an illusion that's arisen for the benefit of natural selection. You just think you are you, and also were born a human. Don't fall for tricks. You aren't real.

Holy fuck you can say that again lmao

 

[Male Idiot]

Well your parents were human, so you are a human. Basic genetics.

If you were amerimutt, and your daddy wemt out for menthols, you would be half human, half NIGGER.

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

If you weren't human, you wouldn't be "you." So human is all you'll ever be.

Okay. We could dive into more nuance here:

Q: What if there is a "You" which is not intrinsically linked to "your body?"

A: I'm not going to answer whether this is, or is not, the case. But assuming it is, we could evoke a variant of the "Anthropic Principle." The only ones asking this question would be human, so of course a human is the one asking this question. (Furthermore, no matter what "You" are, you can ask a variation such as "why am I born a cricket/slug/emu/etc?")

Q: Why is there a "You" at all?

A: This question could be asked independently, or in tandem with, the previous question. But the answer is similar. You have to exist to ask such a question. If You didn't exist in any capacity, it would be someone else asking it and we'd be talking to them instead. We don't need to assume purpose for your, individual, existence here. And we don't need to ponder much on whether an upper-case "You" exists apart from the "you" we observe. Your existence is not necessary because someone's going to ask the question. And that someone is necessarily a human (or, perhaps a sufficiently delusional, but intelligent, being who sees itself as such). But if anyone's gonna ask, it might as well be you.

Q. Okay, but why is it me and not someone else?

A. This is like asking why one guy won the lottery and not the millions of other lottery players. Someone's gonna win. And even if we assume no biasing factors that made that winner more likely, you'd still be asking this same question if it were some other guy.
So if you're to ask "of the potentially quintillions of possible beings which don't exist, but are equally likely to, why are you among the tiny minority which do exist?" the answer really can be simple as "no reason at all. You got lucky."

/autism

 

[Male Idiot]

It is him and not someone else because he was the fastest swimmer in coom form.

We all won at least one swim competition in our life, even Chris did. It was a 1 to 250.000.000 odds.