Poll: Are you Human?
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I do believe I am human, having all the squidgey bits, emotions and thought processes of a human, however, I think I may be slowly turning into something more reminiscent of a zombie, due to the lack of sleep and unrelenting same routine that never changes and requires near to no thought to execute.
So, yes for the moment, human.
Next week/month? Your guess is as good as mine.
So, yes for the moment, human.
Next week/month? Your guess is as good as mine.
No, I don't have a problem with anyone, I was just posting a critical thinking question to break up monotony. I didn't mean for it to come off as "harsh" or that I was disgusted with people.Anomynous 167 said:
That may be true, but nearly everyone can say that. Don't take this the wrong way, but have you ever wondered if these "reactions" to these good deeds or bad deeds that we experience on a daily basis were more like "generic programs" that our parents or mentors install into our brains at a young age?Sun Flash said:
Granted, we can change over time and with each new experience. However, what really perplexes me about it is that none of these reactions are solely unique. Sure you may believe that your morals and reactions are just, and they are. It just seems that for each reaction or moral you have, there are probably 500X that many duplicates consistent within millions of other people around the world.
I guess what I'm really trying to get as is this: has society made we humans more like machines because of what we collectively believe to be fact, or the morally just thing to do?
What did you do? drop it?Ldude893 said:
OT: I believe you are asking whether or not I believe I am a person, as one's membership in the category of "human" is contingent only on one's genes and parents.
And I believe that I posses the criteria for personhood.
Yes.
1. I hate other human beings and purposely put on a happy face to lie to other humans behind their backs.
2. Put me in a room with other people and cut all outside communication off and I WILL dream up ways to murder them.
3. If I was ever given the chance to screw someone over for an epic money scandal I'd do it without a second's thought.
A human being right down its shiny, happy core so yes I AM happy thank you.
1. I hate other human beings and purposely put on a happy face to lie to other humans behind their backs.
2. Put me in a room with other people and cut all outside communication off and I WILL dream up ways to murder them.
3. If I was ever given the chance to screw someone over for an epic money scandal I'd do it without a second's thought.
A human being right down its shiny, happy core so yes I AM happy thank you.
I answered: I don't know.silversnake4133 said:
I have no proof that I am a human being. My perceptions may lie to me, and thus everything I know about my physical appearance may be wrong. My emotions or reasoning may be artificially controlled. Or it might even be that I have my entire life misunderstood what everyone means by the word "human" but it just so happens that everytime I have heard or used the word myself, my misunderstood meaning has coincidentally made sens ein the context as well.
I know nothing about my human nature, and ultimately it is for other to pass that judgement on me, for it to hold any value.
Furthermore, I don't really care that I don't and can't know. Life goes on just find, and it is only a problem not knowing if you decide it is. If I were a narwhale at a research facility being stimulated to think I'm in this so called human world and posting right now in a thread on a website, then who cares? I don't know the difference, and I'm happy anyway, unless I decide to make it a problem.
We will never know the nature of our existence. There will always be room for doubt, and as long as there is doubt, there is no true knowledge. And existential questions needs true knowledge, otherwise it's pointless.
The trick is not to care. To be a sceptic and be fine with never knowing the answer.
I do believe this answer wins the thread. I lol'd.The Rockerfly said:
I'm nothing more than a naked ape; now, if you'll excuse me...
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*scrambling off*
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*scrambling off*
Well, I don't know of any other creatures that post random philosophies on the internet, so I'm going to roll with human.
I'm human because I'm genetically human, born of human parents, homo sapiens.
If you want to get somewhere philosophical with this, I'd suggest asking what makes us a person, distinct from those around us etc.
If you want to get somewhere philosophical with this, I'd suggest asking what makes us a person, distinct from those around us etc.
I would like to answer, But I'm not entirely sure what's being asked. You are asking if I'm human, but not if I'm a human being. Which I assume means separating my mental self from my physical self, But the two are inherently tied. Separated from the physical the definition of a human is entirely arbitrary.
So I guess you're asking if I feel like I'm the same as everyone else. Couldn't tell you, I've never been in anyone else's head. I've got no idea if my thought patterns are similar. But the question is irrelevant anyway. 'human' or not, I'm Me.
So I guess you're asking if I feel like I'm the same as everyone else. Couldn't tell you, I've never been in anyone else's head. I've got no idea if my thought patterns are similar. But the question is irrelevant anyway. 'human' or not, I'm Me.
No im an alien sent to kill all human beings but obviously i have failed and as a punishment by the high overlord Weirdoz have now been reborn and go to school in this weird body that seemingly lacks 6-7 arms and like 5 more legs. The lack of 20 eyes seems to hinder my sight quite much as well.
As far as I'm concerned, being human is identical with being a human being. So no, I'm not an alien.
The other implied definitions, whether they imply rationality, capacity for emotion, humanitarianism, general normality for the species etc. are definitely not necessary conditions for being human - it would be absurd to look at any human being and claim that they are not human.
The other implied definitions, whether they imply rationality, capacity for emotion, humanitarianism, general normality for the species etc. are definitely not necessary conditions for being human - it would be absurd to look at any human being and claim that they are not human.