This Wired article, What Does It Mean to Be Human?is a nice little panel thing offering soundbites from various scientists, many of the answers involved language and semiotic abilities. I particularly liked this one.: "Antonio Damasio, neuroscientist: The critical unique factor is language. Creativity. The religious and scientific impulse. And our social organization, which has developed to a prodigious degree. We have a record of history, moral behavior, economics, political and social institutions. We're probably unique in our ability to investigate the future, imagine outcomes, and display images in our minds."
What would your answer be? And how would you integrate a theological dimension with the scientific answers?
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