just want to know
2006-11-30 15:06:06 · 11 answers · asked by Jean D 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It all depends on what you mean by that word, "human", doesn't it? ;) On the one hand it seems that we do start out members of the same species, but....
In terms of intelligence, sociability and morality, it would seem that some of us are also *more human* or more *of* a human than others....or maybe better at this *human* thing, I don't know.
I mean, you can dumb the word human down until it's about just being able to bleed or about having the free will to *choose* to make a mistake, but there is just something sad about doing that. Something cheap and miserable about reducing conscious and supposedly thoughtful beings to their weaknesses and failures. I mean, we can agree that a felon, say a murderer or a rapist is wrong, that he or she did evil, but it doesn't follow to condemn us all for having *the potential* to be as messed up.
Just because *some* squirrels end up being roadkill, that doesn't make *every* squirrel automatically roadkill by default. Not all members of the class die (or live) in the worst possible manner.
So yeah....reducing the idea of "human" to its negatives is a bad idea, and not exactly good thinking even if the idea *has uses*. Plato may be right about criminals and dictators, but what about the rest of us?
I think, humbly, that the rest of us have a chance, however small, to *evolve* what it means to be human. It might be nothing more than literally getting new DNA in the system (by mutation, transposons--rare but it happens, or by epigenetics turning long dormant genes *back on*) and then having that reproductive success that natural selection demands....
Or it might be something more subtle. It might be about the ideas you think, the life you live, and finding the way to observe reality not just as it is, but as it ought to be. It might well be about finding that last bit of potential in our brains that says, "ok, maybe we *can* code for reality like we do for computers".
Or it might well be something larger than ourselves, and outside ourselves. Be it the alien, the almighty, or something else entirely, if there is one thing we know about reality, it is that it is recursive. Fractal.
As above, so below. If living creatures evolve, and the thoughts and dreams they have are also selected for in a darwinian sort of manner, then it may well be possible that the world we live in, the reality we exist in, that the laws of nature themselves are an evolving entity. As below, so *above*, only *more so*.
So maybe *we* are the genes of the universe, that which makes it change into better, or at least more developed, forms.
Who knows? I'd like to think *I'm* human enough to be treated always as an *end in myself* and not as a means to an end, but at the same time, I do admit that I aspire to be more than what I am now.
Is this wrong, or is this just the nature of what life *is*?
2006-11-30 15:33:43 · answer #1 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is completely an really exciting question. In theory, you would imagine it would want to be a possibility, yet to my understand-how, and what i have researched, it is not any longer. The human sperm isn't nicely matched with, i'm guessing, the reproductive organs of that yet another species. perhaps it is the non-compatibility of both DNA's. i'm no longer truly effective. I absolutely have presented a link which will enlighten another unanswered question you've. yet another species hasn't ever, lower back to my understand-how/study, been born with the help of a human. there are a determination of documented "mutant" form infant's, yet those mutant's nonetheless make up our finished human DNA, there-for the fast answer for all of your questions is, No.
2016-11-28 02:58:01 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes we are really human. Meaning we walk upright, sentient with the ability to think on our own and a free will to decide what is right or wrong. to make decisions for ourselves.
2006-11-30 15:14:37 · answer #3 · answered by Rose R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. We're ex-communicated Martians.
2006-12-02 13:56:02 · answer #4 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
humans named themselves humans so yeah! we're all humans.
2006-11-30 17:26:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-11-30 17:21:02 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are homo sapiens. I guess that's human.
2006-11-30 15:26:03 · answer #7 · answered by bellegurl17 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am!
I don't know if i can say the same about you though!!!
2006-11-30 21:18:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go ahead and stab yourself, lets see.
2006-11-30 16:29:49 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends upon your reception only.... how do u concieve....
2006-11-30 17:21:47 · answer #10 · answered by CHANDAN G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋