Humans

SONJA: Good morning Romero!
ROMERO: Good morning professor!
SONJA: Are you ready to learn about a new topic today?
ROMERO: Yeah!
SONJA: Have you heard about Sentient Life Form 1305 before?
ROMERO: Uh....Maybe? Aren't they the ones that migrated their whole population to the core of their planet?
SONJA: Good effort little Romero, but no, those were Sentient Life Form 406, also known as the Corists.
ROMERO: Oh yeah, the Corists...
SONJA: 1305 were a wildly different species known as humans. I find them absolutely fascinating, which is why we're going to spend the next cycle learning about them together.
ROMERO: All right!
SONJA: Let's get started then. Humans were an organic life form whose physiology was heavily influenced by their planet, like most organics. Their civilization had a very short life span of about 40 000 cycles, but they left behind some of the most interesting artifacts of any extinct sentient life form before it.
ROMERO: Artifacts? Like what?
SONJA: Well, some of it was the usual. Infrastructure, habitats, transportation methods and resource management tools.
ROMERO: Well that's boring... We already talked about those things when we learned about the Fintarians, 1612 I think it was?
SONJA: Yes, but the Fintarians has built utilitarian tools. Humans, on the other hand, have left behind an abundance of artifacts that suggest something more unique.
ROMERO: You mean like different kinds of sustenance or transportation?
SONJA: Yes, but it was much more than that. They have objects and words for objects that seem to fill no real purpose except for the satisfaction of it's owner!
ROMERO: I don't understand?
SONJA: For example, they would sometimes keep ornamental plants in their homes.
ROMERO: You gotta be kiddin' me here. There must have been a good reason to have plants in their habitat.
SONJA: There were some good reasons yes, such as oxygen production, but that's not why people had plants. It was simply because they thought it was aesthetically pleasing.
ROMERO: Really? So did they all have the same plant then?
SONJA: That's where it gets really crazy. No, they didn't all have the same plant. They each had individual preferences in aesthetic style.
ROMERO: Wow! It must have been really difficult for humans to function, spending so much of their energy on something so trivial.
SONJA: Well Romero, you see, humans have a tendency to all be very different from each other.
ROMERO: Wait, are you saying that each specimen of the life form is unique?
SONJA: Yes.
ROMERO: Uh. Weird.
SONJA: Yes well, wait until I talk about "dancing".
ROMERO: What's "dancing"?
SONJA: That's a question for another lesson, youngster. We are done for today, we will learn more about these odd creatures next time.
ROMERO: Ok, thank you professor Sonja, see ya!
SONJA: See you soon Romero!