Resolving stereotypes regarding online education
Acceptance of online education and degree for a common man is still like a question mark. Many people believe that those who are not eligible for admission in any…
JEE Main: Ensuring future
JEE Main reaching its culmination, it is time for the aspirants to wait for the result. Soon the result will be out and there will be many who would…
How to become an online tutor?
Diversity: Your students are likely to come from all parts of the globe. How amazing would it feel to touch the lives of people from all around the world? It’s…
Human genes history
For thousands of years scientists have been working to crack the code of our DNA and see just what makes humans human and what differentiates us from those around us.…
What does it take to be human?
Occasionally a question comes out to my mind-Are we human just because of the unique traits and attributes not shared with animal or machine?
If I follow the definition of “human” , it is circular: we are human by virtue of the properties that make us human (i.e., distinct us from the animal and the machine). Clearly this is a definition by negation: that which separates us from animal and machine is our “human-ness”.
However, inevitably, we are human because we are not animal, nor machine.
Such thinking has been rendered progressively, less tenable by the advent of evolutionary and neo-evolutionary theories, which postulate a continuum in nature between animals and Man.
Our uniqueness is partly quantitative, partly qualitative.
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