Do other animals feel ambition, curiosity, envy and regret? The answer is a resounding Yes. The young male chimpanzee has the ambition to become chief chimpanzee and win all the ladies, curiosity killed the cat, a dog feels the pang of jealousy when its owner shows affection for another and my dog certainly shows remorse when she has been caught eating the cats dinner – outwardly at least. So is it the two fundamental emotions of Love and Hate that make us human? The ongoing struggle between Good and Evil but each defines the other and therefore if they are so intricately entwined do we need them both?
             Our gift is our awareness of self and our thoughts and how we are connected to our surroundings giving humans the one thing all animals else lack: choice. Is consciousness just the product of our evolution, one day a homosapian was born whose DNA had a mutation which caused slightly different signals to be sent in the brain making it aware that it was alive and gave it an advantage over the other homosapians and therefore it passed on the faulty gene and the mutation developed to be part of the brain that produces conscious thought. Humans then had a power unrivalled by any and therefore could kill everything they wanted just for practise like the fox kills the chicken and the cat kills the bird, so why is it that we feel a need to protect the trees and plants and care when an animal is needlessly killed, why does vegetation and life bring us joy when we could survive in an utterly desolate world; maybe it is because we evolved needed the plants and animals for food and shelter so therefore an advantageous mutation caused a control of our awareness to be created, the conscience.
             But this is so hard to believe, even though we have had billions of years to evolve the chance that the right chemicals joined together in a certain way to form a membrane round each human cell that is so perfect f
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