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WDYT?: What Does Being Human Mean to You?

Lindsay Starke

Human beings are unique among animals. What does being human mean to you?

 

Share your definitions, opinions, and musings in the comments!

 

 

photo by Fanny Schertzer

 

 

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Lindsay Starke
8 months ago

To me, being human is being an animal—a really smart, really social animal. That is to say, being human is being three things: an evolved biological organism (we're made out of meat!); a thinker, creator, inventor, and dreamer; and an altruistic, empathetic creature that lives or dies by its relation to its group.

Clarence McKinney
8 months ago

Being human means, to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, having the ability to drink a cold glass of Coca Cola on a hot day. To state this a little more obviously, we are creators of technology. It is this tool-making capacity that shifted our evolution strongly in favor of ever-larger neurological equipment (i.e. bigger brains). Think for a moment of the Space Shuttle, and you will generate a strong personal experience of what it means to be a human being: a technological ape.

Travis Wheeling
8 months ago

"It is truely inspiring that beings confined to one planet orbiting a run-of-the-mill star in the far edges of a fairly ordinary galaxy have been able, through thought and experiment, to ascertain and comprehend some of the most mysterious characteristics of the physical universe" -Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe.

Vicki Brown
8 months ago

Being human means that I can use a computer, connect to the 'Net, access this website, read, understand, and respond to this question.

Peter Baumann
7 months ago

The capacity to realize that we're civilized primates.

mahesh kumar
7 months ago

change the think it pure being human and right time at right work.

 
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