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From: [email protected] (Sourcerer)
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Subject: Re: Frankenstein (was Dystopia cont.)
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 95 20:14:04 GMT
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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (mpa) wrote:
>Zeitgeyser ([email protected]) wrote:
>> I'm with Sourcerer on this one. Where would you point to for our lost
>> humanity?
>It would seem to be more likely that an action like that might be a
>description of the marker of the *beginning* of the age of "humanity"
>rather than the end. The growth of leisure time and the concretion of
>environment promote reflection and can lead to the development of a data
>set called "humanity"(and its characteristics).
Why do we seek a definition of "human" and "humanity" beyond "a particular
set of organisms, which, odds have it, produce viable offspring?"
Being "human" is simply the expression of a specific genetic complex, just
as being ursine is the expression of a specific genetic complex.
(__) Sourcerer
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