What makes a human human?
A Voight-Kampff reading within established parameters sufficient to rule out a replicant. Duh.
A Voight-Kampff reading within established parameters sufficient to rule out a replicant. Duh.
Even magpies can do that.Willwillwritehiswill post=18.71022.713254 said:being able to recognise ones own existance.
Being able to question one's own existance.SaintWaldo post=18.71022.715481 said:Even magpies can do that.Willwillwritehiswill post=18.71022.713254 said:being able to recognise ones own existance.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080818220557.htm
I think personally humans as a whole (scientists, despite sucking scientist dick and rating them above jesus) should do a few better things instead of wanking off the human mass and making it feel big and manly against all the other little creatures. Like say the Chimera idea from full metal alchemist. It is technically possible to say, improve vision with animal DNA inserted by a vector, but not magic...ramble ramble...yeah do something more fucking useful you white coated cocks!...girls in white cloats are hot..sorry..i made my point in that mass somewhere_daxter_ post=18.71022.715553 said:Really hard question. Basically it is a matter of definition. So one extreme is to say we are because we call ourselves. This is in no way shallow. Think about it.
The other extreme is talking about specific traits. But here it gets really complicated, because we cannot really compare. We can see that monkeys can cry. Can feel empathy. Can hate. Can play. But there is many things we simply cannot talk about with them.
I personally think we are simply very complicated animals. Instead of climbing trees we sit down on our sofa and play Super Mario. Instead of beating our chests we drive the biggest cars and stuff. We might think a lot, but to what end?
But this of course isn't exactly hip to say for most people. It is so tempting to call ourselves special. Makes life easier.