What Are Human Beings?

Gary Niemen
11 min readApr 4, 2021

Beings of light, clever mammals, and everything in between

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What are human beings? I mean what are we really? Are we wondrous beings of light or just clever mammals? Are we immortal souls or just containers for the survival of our genes? Nobody really knows I suggest, but there are many many opinions. Here are around 25 of them.

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Gary Niemen

Product manager and technical writer in tech by day. Writing about life, mind, and wellbeing by night. All from our red farmhouse in the Swedish countryside.