To answer all three in one - they are merely snapshots in a process of continuous change and interaction. It's like Conway's Life. You may look at a Life simulation running and say "that shape looks like a wasp, or a human", but two steps on, it has changed out of all recognition due to the rules of the system.
I think that it is the selective evaluation of the rational mind. We choose to see shapes and put names to them, but we don't see the vibrating atoms and even smaller element below that, of which all three phenomena you describe are based (making the human, wasp and cranefly all the same stuff, merely different arrangement of it) and how ability denotes the purpose of form, rather than the form itself. Humans can speak, Wasps can sting to defend themselves and Craneflies reproduce and die very quickly. Humans can defend themselves and reproduce, but they can't fly as we are too heavy to have effective insect wings. Each form has both abilities and drawbacks.
So to go back to "what is the point to..", the point is that the form exists based the rules of the existance we live in.
A more interesting question is why do we exist and why? According to Cause and Effect (which science is based on), it would seem that something is behind it..although determining that is very difficult, given we have to use the rules of the system in an attempt to define something outside of the system. Like trying to get access to root from a user account.
I suppose our only chance is if someone left an undocumented backdoor somewhere in reality and someone finds it..
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I think that it is the selective evaluation of the rational mind. We choose to see shapes and put names to them, but we don't see the vibrating atoms and even smaller element below that, of which all three phenomena you describe are based (making the human, wasp and cranefly all the same stuff, merely different arrangement of it) and how ability denotes the purpose of form, rather than the form itself. Humans can speak, Wasps can sting to defend themselves and Craneflies reproduce and die very quickly. Humans can defend themselves and reproduce, but they can't fly as we are too heavy to have effective insect wings. Each form has both abilities and drawbacks.
So to go back to "what is the point to..", the point is that the form exists based the rules of the existance we live in.
A more interesting question is why do we exist and why? According to Cause and Effect (which science is based on), it would seem that something is behind it..although determining that is very difficult, given we have to use the rules of the system in an attempt to define something outside of the system. Like trying to get access to root from a user account.
I suppose our only chance is if someone left an undocumented backdoor somewhere in reality and someone finds it..