This is KZU's.

This is KZSU, Stanford.

Welcome to entitled opinions. My name is Robert Harrison, and we're coming to you from the Stanford campus.

Again, I'm Robert Harrison for entitled opinions coming to you with some thoughts about what exactly makes us human,

where our intelligence comes from, and whether we have evolved ourselves out of the animal kingdom altogether. The latter hypothesis seems highly unlikely. As Zarathustra said to the people in the

marketplace, you have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm.

Once you were apes, yet even today man is more ape than any ape.

Sometimes I get the impression that the more power humanity accrues, the more we use it

for ape-like purposes, like high-tech smashing of skulls in ever more destructive wars,

like enhanced forms of gratification, alpha conflicts, persecution of the subaltern, and the semiotics of prestige.

A species that has gone far beyond its phylogeny

falls back into the worst forms of apdom, time and again,

as it moves into the future on the wings of artificial intelligence.

From a philosophical point of view,

as soon as we ask about the human,

we run into the problem of pronouns.

What are we? Or who are we?

What finds its answer in our species identity?

Humans are biped animals with inordinately large brains?

Who is another matter?

Who is not static but open-ended, thrown into possibility, choices, the first- person singular, and a future that claims our

awareness before it becomes real.

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