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What Does It Mean to Be Human?
- yan 18y agoSpeaking of, there's a very good MIT OpenCourseWare course on 'Godel, Escher, Bach' which deals with that issue. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/geb/VideoLectures/index.htm http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/geb/VideoLectures/index.htm
- LPTS 18y agoThats a great link. Thanks! I think GEB is still going to be a classic 100 years from now, one of those works way ahead of it's time.
- rms 18y agoAbout 50 IQ points on top of a monkey that passes the mirror test. Seriously, self-awareness/memory/perception of time is the big leap forward. All that makes us better than a bonobo is we are n units of measuring intelligence better.
- earthboundkid 18y agoHumans are the moral animal.