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What do you guys think makes humans, human?
I was watching a tiktok video on Connor from Detroit becomes human, how he was experiencing boredom and how that's very human, and that it goes to show him being more that just machine, and I was like really? You can use boredom to identify humanity? I never thought of it that way.
But It also made me think about this one review I saw under the Little Mushroom novel on novelupdates, where someone was like "the MC is more human than some of the human characters despite being a mushroom" because I think the human characters were cruel or selfish (I haven't read the novel). And again I was like, Really? A stupid mushroom is deemed more human than humans. Don't humans themselves demonstrate what humans are, even the most selfish and cruel ones? Or is humanity just all the positive traits?
appearance? probably a shallow reasoning but if an extraterrestrial shapeshifted into a human appearance, we'd probably treat them like another human; if they do weird shit, then they'll be seen as a weirdo but still a human weirdo.
i can't say sentience bc others animals are also sentient (we're still learning abt it but we do know that animals c...... 4 reply
Destroying the earth, we're the only living beings to have caused this much chaos and destruction to the world, we also live in a system, other animals live freely with no rules, I guess that's what makes us humans, trapped in this cycle of life that was made up by our corrupted leaders, no free will, no way to get out, while other creatures live t...... 2 reply
Well thats a really good question because a human doesn’t exist outside of what we in our minds determine it to be. It’s sounds weird humans aren’t real but they aren’t nescisarily natural concept or thing, we are a species that has declared ourselves as human which would kinda mean that we have chosen to differentiate ourselves from other ...... 1 reply
That's because humanity is associated with personhood. Like, Connor is not human, but he is a PERSON.
Humans have linked personhood with the complexity of our own species because other beings on Earth (humans, plants, fungi) can't seem to reach our 'level'. Even though other animals like mice and even ants have been shows to present proofs of empat...... reply
I've never really thought there's one thing that makes humans human (outside of the like yk literal scientific definition humans as a species). A lot of people love to claim there are traits that make people uniquely human, but I don't rlly agree with that. Like when people say humans are the only species that create art, so art makes us human. I t...... 1 reply
Some of you actually gave some very insightful and philosophical answers
My take is biologically humans are very similar. Compared to other species we don’t really have a lot of genetic diversity. I think this might have to do with the fact that humanity is not a species, but a race. The other races of Homo sapiens died out or so they say. Such...... reply
This is a very interesting question. Many perspectives of humanity sometimes also apply to other living things, such as emotions, consciousness or the ability to think and such. But I think its just our identity, and the belongingness to that term is really subjective based on beliefs that certain unique traits serves as distinction to other human-...... reply
