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Originally Posted by HarryT
We are humans, just as dogs are dogs and aardvarks are aardvarks. I don't personally think we are anything "special" - we are simply primates who took an evolutionary path, about 7 million years ago, which led to what we happen to be now. It could have happened to any species; it just happened to be us. I think it's quite monstrous egotism to suggest that we hold some "special position" in the universe  . |
I have to agree. Humans are just another species that evolved on this planet, no more special than any other except in our own minds. So answering the original question "What is it that makes us human?" I think that's all there is to it.
If the question had been:
"what puts humans at the top of the food chain?"
"what makes us humane?"
"what makes us so different from all other species on the planet?"
or any number of other questions that might inquire who we are as humans, then I think there might be more to ponder. The way the question was posed, and if we want to remain true to that question without wandering off on other tangents, I for one, hit a brick wall for further discussion.