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View submission: What makes us human?
The thing that defines us as humans is our belonging to the human species, i.e our genetic similarity. Everything else is just self importance. There's no reason to believe other sapient species (including artificial ones) will have less or more of any of those traits. And none of them are exclusive to humans. Other animals show compassion, perseverance, etc. The one thing that might separate us from other animals is self awareness and individuality, the thing we call "consciousness", but it's hard to tell if other animals are also self aware since we can't really communicate with them. The mirror test implies that at least some animals might have some kind of sense of self.
Comment by NoOpportunity7847 at 24/01/2025 at 21:13 UTC
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(Sorry for my english) That’s deep! Thank’s for share your toughts!