What it means to be human
Concept / schedule
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
Living in slavery
Software evolution taking over the lead
Speed of evolution for hardware and for software
Evolutionary jet-lag in Homo sapiens
Human beings as carriers of two types of information, DNA, genes, and Culture, memes
Blind spots / Self-Blindness / Cultural smoke curtains
Losing our ignorance
When intelligence finally understands its own nature
Freeing unsuspected quantities of energy and intelligence
Surpassing point Omega
Unavoidable, automatic, unexpectedly fast and sudden
Runaway characteristics; positive feed back loops (technically)
Relax, enjoy the ride
[suggestions about how to make best use of the situation after Point Omega, see [[here]]]
