--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is why we'll never agree. Being human is about expressing > humanity, not about chromosome number, or genetic engineering, or > symbiosis, or phenotypic modification. It's about language, > society, > culture, art, curiosity, expression, experience, learning. We > could > modify our bodies beyond all recognition and become a thousand > new > species, and as long as we retain all the aspects of mind that > make > us human, we'll be human. > > Likewise, if we're not capable of those things, we're not fully > human, or not human at all. Not in any sense that means anything.
Well, now you've left me confused. Neither a 1-month old infant, nor a 7-month unborn child are capable of either of those things, and you clearly consider them to be human. So, there clearly is something else at work in defining humanity for you. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
