in thread "What if the extended human phenotype is natural and convergent?": Reminiscent of conversations I've been having about a substrate independent definition of humanity (partially drawing on Pico Della Mirandolla's "Oration on the Dignity of Man"). If one accepts that human beings are in some sense a "general intelligence" t... 2w ago (collapse hidden) 88 Reminiscent of conve (view hidden) 88 It's only one angle of analysis, but I'm interested in how common lingual and philosophical concepts describe behavior as humane or human/inhuman when applied to people - is the human genotype, *the* defining feature of being human? Probably not, unless we... 2w ago (collapse hidden) 11 It's only one angle (view hidden) 11