What it means to be human
From Point Omega Research
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
Being intelligent
What is intelligence ?
"Free" capacity for information processing
Limits to free accessible intelligence capacity
Being the most intelligent species on earth
Having escaped from the ordinary evolutionary upper limit of (free) intelligence
Hardware and software
Information, tradition, culture, cumulated knowledge
