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
