WHO IS AND ISN’T HUMAN? —“Curt, Who isn’t currently human?”—Joel Harvey Is t

WHO IS AND ISN’T HUMAN?

—“Curt, Who isn’t currently human?”—Joel Harvey

Is the line of demarcation between human and animal:

1) Morphology?

2) Sentience? (Reaction to stimuli)

3) Awareness? (Sympathy-intent/Empathy-experience/Imitation-action)

4) Speech?

5) Reason? (Agency)

As far as I know, it is reason and agency which separates us from the animals.

That means very few of us are yet human. The rest are in different stages of domesticated animal.

And I suspect that number (percentage) corresponds to the pareto minimum.

Yes, really.

Our process of self domestication is far from complete. It is merely sufficient for west and to a lesser degree, east, to drag mankind out of ignorance, superstition, hard labor, filth, poverty, starvation, disease, plagues, suffering, child mortality, early death, continuous violence, and the vicissitudes of nature.

|HUMAN| The gods we aspire to be < Trained Humans < untrained humans < trained animals < untrained animals < untrainable animals.

We domesticated plants, those animals we could domesticate, and those humans we could domesticate.

We just left the job unfinished.