I stole this question from the feature they have on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2. I dunno if you've heard it, but they get articulate scientists, activists, TV presenters, authors, artists etc. to explain what being human means to them. You can listen to some here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02...odes/downloads
I figure we have some pretty articulate folk on these boards so what makes us human?
I'll keep my definition short: I can think of three things that make us human: our capacity for empathy, our need to create for creations sake (not just creating for utility) and our capacity to kid ourselves, to tell ourselves we know things that we don't, or to put it another way our uncomfortableness with not-knowing.
I figure we have some pretty articulate folk on these boards so what makes us human?
I'll keep my definition short: I can think of three things that make us human: our capacity for empathy, our need to create for creations sake (not just creating for utility) and our capacity to kid ourselves, to tell ourselves we know things that we don't, or to put it another way our uncomfortableness with not-knowing.
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