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War  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When does a human cease to be a human?

If we are arguing on philosophical grounds I don't think there is an answer. We don't know how to define being human, yet that is what we are. We know that we are human, yet we struggle to understand why that is. If we became anything else we would probably still consider ourselves human.





Elrond  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think its mainly the consciousness that makes us humans. Take that away and we're nothing but good looking apes.

user-inactivated  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We really are homonculi, in a sense.