We humans are by no means the swiftest of animals—yet, through our unique powers of consciousness, we routinely travel faster than any other animal on the planet. Likewise, we fly higher and faster than any bird, though there is nothing about us, on a strictly physical level, that makes it possible for us to fly at all. We do not possess traits that would make us the most destructive of creatures, yet we have surpassed, a-million times over, the damaging capacity of any other living thing on earth. Perhaps we do not ponder often enough how strange we are as humans. In us, physiology introduces a power to evolve and adapt almost at will, once an idea of the advantage of doing so becomes compelling to us. We may not be entirely able to call ourselves God, but we certainly have god-like powers.