DO HUMANS MATTER ?

There was a wonderful line I read in a book critique. It goes ".......humans desperately want to matter." This statement can lead down many avenues. Question: are humans relevant only to themselves? Is any universal entity relevant only to itself?

Many religions have a bizzare idea that only humans matter to God. Why is it not enough that humans matter to themselves? Is religion a transformation of natural physical law into 'unnatural' behavior? Do quarks matter to themselves(or God)? Do simple particles transform their self-relevance upon becoming complex entities? Are all existing particles, each, the center of the universe? Are these questions I now ask simply reconstruction of physical laws through brain processes? And why would physical laws take this route?

Another avenue is that humans do not matter, either in short term, or long. This idea would bother most humans if contemplated. But very few do. Being at the top of the food chain(where no other life forms {or e/m} depend on our survival) is not all it's cracked up to be. Human extinction would not threaten the Earth(or other natural species). They would all be glad we left......unless.....unless we, at sometime in the far future, are able to transplant life from this planet far away in a safe place. If the seeding of life throughout the galaxy(ies) is up to us.....well, we better get our butts in gear. This preservation of life, whether our own or other species, is a way for humans to matter.

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