Video: Defining Humanity-Steve Fuller
Of course humanity is elusive, because it is not a
“finally completed product”. The humanity is still in the
development stage. Unless human being were extinguished, the
development would not stop. Until we can foresee the end of human
being, we cannot even predict what humanity could be.
Anyway, it is still worth to look back and find
out, some where in the midpoint of the development, the
“semi-product”. However, whatever we have found, the humanity is
outdated. It can be taken for reference only. It is not any golden
rule.
It is a joke to define humanity as meat, as per
the short film “They’re made out of meat”
(http://youtu.be/IfPdhsP8XjI).
However, learning is the basic attribute of humanity. If we cannot
learn, we are no different with other animals.
From the very beginning, there was not any
teacher. Human being learned from observing the nature. That is why
we find education is a dying art.
Although we can learn, at different areas, at
different times, for different people, our learning are always different.
Theoretically, if we have time, experience the same environment, we
could have the same learning. Unfortunately environment keeps
changing. The learning subject would change, or even disappear. The
diversification of humanity is unavoidable.
Feb 17, 2013
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