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The problem with being human is that someone managed to lose the instruction manual. It was probably a bad chinglish translation from the original. There are those who would say that the various writings of prophets and other similar folk are our manuals. But given the scale of the cosmos, and that we figure we are fairly sure about 4% of it, a genuinely pragmatic manual would be pretty handy, one that, at a rough guess, would have nothing of us anywhere the centre of anything. In fact that might not be a bad indicator of any would-be manual. In the meantime, i think Douglas Adams' take on our significance, purpose and ultimate destiny is probably as sensible as it is likely to get. Reassuringly, we are third in the smarts pecking order, behind the mice and the dolphins.