There may be many reasons why we are here on Earth. Then again, maybe there are none. The reasons that are usually cited include glorifying God, having dominion over all animals, cherishing our parents, raising a family, helping the poor and the unfortunate, tending to the sick and lame, maintaining good health, relieving suffering, and striving to be happy.. One might add: becoming successful in life (whatever that might be). What’s missing, is whether we are also re-creating ourselves for implicit and competitive reasons. We definitely have been trying, in some fashion or another, to copy the human being, dating back to the beginning of recorded time. One merely needs to study the progression from cave drawings to paintings to blueprints to mechanical entities to computer programs to robots and humanoids.