Difference between revisions of "What it means to be human"
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== Being intelligent == | == Being intelligent == | ||
| − | What is intelligence ? | + | === What is intelligence ? === |
| − | "Free" capacity for information processing | + | === "Free" capacity for information processing === |
| − | Limits to free accessible intelligence capacity | + | === Limits to free accessible intelligence capacity === |
== Being the most intelligent species on earth == | == Being the most intelligent species on earth == | ||
| − | Having escaped from the ordinary evolutionary upper limit of (free) intelligence | + | === Having escaped from the ordinary evolutionary upper limit of (free) intelligence === |
| − | Hardware and software | + | === Hardware and software === |
| − | Information, tradition, culture, cumulated knowledge | + | === Information, tradition, culture, cumulated knowledge === |
== Living in slavery == | == Living in slavery == | ||
Revision as of 09:38, 10 June 2016
Contents
What it means to be human
Being living matter
Self replicating molecules
Catalization of self-replication
Competition for basic building blocks
Being an animal, not a plant
How a plant finds its building materials
How an animal finds its building materials
movement; the trick to change place
perception of the environment
emotions and motivation
Proximate and Ultimate purposes of behaviour (basics of how behaviours evolve)
Being a "group"-animal
Emotions to seek company
Emotions to seek own family or group
