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Published on Apr 26, 2017

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The End!

Hmmm.... Humans?
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Comparative Method Redux

0. What Humans are Not
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Humans

are not animals
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or hybrids

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and becoming an animal makes one less human

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or a monster

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at the edges of the earth and civilization

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But "Reason" is unique to humans...

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and the rationality of empirical research

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except when it isn't

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Humans

are not gods
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and not immortal

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despite claims to be so

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and so must face death

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or try to achieve a different sort of immortality

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perhaps immortality through memory

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or something else

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1. Reading the Signs

To be human is to think symbolically
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Dante's 9th Circle

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to be human is to think symbolically

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to look for signs

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to map signs

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to devise and uncover signs

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to define markers of lasting value

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... and to try to identify an order to things

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... and a place in that universe

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...or, to make a new place of order

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and, perhaps, to question that order

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and seek a new model

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... in empirical observation

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which of course has a longer history...

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... at least back to Aristotle

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and with many offshoots

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and branches

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and variations

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...through the present day

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...and into the future

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What does it mean to be human in a virtual world?

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2. Creation

To be human is to create things
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a history of fashioning things

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often ridiculous 

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sometimes small

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sometimes grand

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profane

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and sublime

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... a form of order against a disordered world, the perfection of lines

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an order in the idiom of the times, a perfection of curves

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(and to state the obvious) ... to create in words

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and image

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and art

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and art (who decides anyway?)

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and "art"

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... or to create performance

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and music

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and spectacle

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3. Stories

(to be human is to tell stories too)
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To be human...

is to speak in metaphors
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The End?

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Ranier Maria Rilke (1875-1926); Letters to a Young Poet (1903)

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