The disgusting thing about this question is that if you give a vague reason, what human beings are intelligent, human beings have feelings, aliens can directly ask: "Don't dogs and monkeys have these things? Do you think you humans are very high-ranking? , but in our opinion you are as inferior as them."
So is there really no essential difference between humans and other species? I don't think so. It should be said that the evolution of species to the stage of human beings has already caused qualitative changes from quantitative changes.
Think about it, why do aliens call aliens "humans", not simply alien creatures? This "man" certainly does not refer to a hairless ape, so what does it refer to?
There is a movie called "Bicentennial man", which is literally translated as "a two-hundred-year-old man", but I have never seen such a translation, and it is usually translated as "becoming a man". I still agree with this free translation, because this movie The main line is to talk about the process of a robot growing into a human.
Now that the robot Andrew has completed such a miraculous transformation, let's take a look at his growth process, and maybe we can use this to answer the serious and absurd question of what is a "human".
The first extraordinary thing that the robot Andrew did was to create wood carvings. It was creation rather than production. He learned wood carving techniques by himself and carved out what he had in mind.
"Creativity" is Andrew's first step towards becoming a "human". In fact, there is too much information behind this simple "creativity", such as a series of basic abilities such as curiosity, memory, and association.
When it comes to memory, I think of the sentence "accurate memory is a virtue", which makes sense. There is a movie called "Memento", many people just marvel at the way it tells its story, but I am sentimental about its story because of its nature The above is to say that there can be no real life without accurate memory, so the Indian movie "Unknown Death" based on the same story is completely incomparable to it in depth (suddenly thought that "Shutter Island" can also be interpreted from this perspective) .
Curiosity is also an important factor that distinguishes people from some low-level animals. For example, the Japanese animation "Attack on Titan" expressed a similar meaning at the beginning, but the Chinese are really bad at this point. They used to be fools. , the so-called prosperous age is just to prevent people from starving to death, and now it is too utilitarian, which is why there is no master.
After taking the first step, Andrew, with the support of his master, kept reading and learning new things, and as a result, many years later, he took the second step - "freedom".
It should be said that no one had ordered Andrew to do anything for many years, but Andrew made this request, although he was still happy to serve the Martin (his owner) family.
The logic behind this is very advanced, which is to say that the service can, but it must be based on my free will. Free will is a good thing, "The Truman World" said "You didn't put a camera in my head", "A Clockwork Orange" said "If a person doesn't even have the right to choose evil, is he still human? ?"
Many years after the second step, Andrew started his process of looking for like-minded people, and ultimately failed to find one in the robot, which brewed his third step - looking for friends.
However, this third step finally becomes the pursuit of love, but the essence is the same, that is to establish connections with others, in the words of "Naruto" is to have fetters, in Marx's words, it is said that "the essential attributes of people are Societal," a tragic movie called "The Wrestler" explains it very well, and Robinson ends up dying in the wrestling ring because it's only there that he can feel the world's need for him.
Is there a fourth step? Yes, that is "death". Andrew could have been immortal as a robot, but he finally chose to die, partly because he wanted to die together with his lover, and partly to gain recognition of his human identity by a federal court.
There is a very interesting detail in this fourth step, that is, Andrew died before the federal court declared him a human, and Galatia, who was next to him, felt sorry for this, while Andrew's lover said, "Maybe he doesn't have to witness it himself." . Why not witness it for yourself? Because Andrew is already a person, and a real person can think independently and make his own judgment, without the confirmation of the world.
I have a friend who calls it L. He also tried to define it for people. This definition is still very complicated, so I will not repeat it here. I will just announce his shocking conclusion. There is no real person yet." Of course I disagree with this extreme point of view. My conclusion is that "there are not many capitalized people in ancient and modern China and foreign countries." We are lowercase people, but we have potential, so we can also share a little of the glory of mankind.
By the way, I have to go back to the topic of discouraging aliens from eating people. My answer is very simple: "We are human and have human rights."
That's right, I'm just so out of character. In fact, I also conceived a science fiction novel for this, telling that the major planets compromised a "Cosmic Declaration of Human Rights" after years of melee, and the first article of this declaration is to stipulate What kind of species can be called human.
PS: 1. In fact, in addition to this big four-step walk, the film "Bicentennial man" also has several keywords, such as Unique, Imperfection, Do something wrong, among which is unique This keyword is very unfavorable for clones. I recommend the movie "The Sixth Day" (the best thing about this movie is the title). Imperfect advises on genetic improvement. I recommend the movies "Variant Aliens" and "City of Angels". As for doing the wrong thing, it is to criticize rationalism, and people should do some bubbling things occasionally.
2. The above discussion places the definition of human beings on various virtual levels, and does not discuss biological attributes, not to mention the human rights of people with biological attributes such as vegetative and mentally retarded people, although I can say that they have potential. The lowercase ones, but it still feels lacking. As in the past, Europeans did not feel guilty about killing Bushmen and Indians. There is a point behind it that the Bushmen and Indians are not human, and they came to this conclusion because they thought they were not human.
Science fiction movies like to think about this biological attribute in reverse, such as "Ghost in the Shell". In order not to have too complicated feelings for the Ghost in the Shell, humans deliberately designed them into an ugly machine shape, but designed them for low-intelligence robots. Adult shape.
3. The novel "Zhu Xian" has also discussed the difference between humans and beasts, and it stands at the third step. The original text is excerpted as follows:
"A good one is just enough to feed one's stomach. Speaking of which, there are all kinds of people in the world who are busy all day long, so isn't it just to feed their stomach. In this way, when you say the so-called 'people', don't you also hate me as a glutton. Like a beast, is there no difference?"
Gui Li turned the roast pig gently, and the sesame oil on the pork immediately became richer, causing the gluttonous glutton opposite to be restless, but I don't know if it was for the taste of deliciousness or what, this one was only fierce. The alien beast, which is also known for its gluttony, actually endured it, and at the same time Xiao Hui glared at it.
The flame burned quietly and reflected on Gui Li's face. He slowly said: "People are still different." The young man said
: "What?
"
, said: "Don't you know that all beasts also feel, you kill this wild boar, you should know that the wild boar is painful and fearful, if I kill you, you are also like a pig. All living beings are equal, how can there be a distinction between humans and beasts?
" He looked at the young man, and said, "There is a difference." The
young man's eyes were sharp and he said, "What is the difference?"
Gui Li said, "I have had great regrets in my life, which are carved in my heart day and night. Life. There is still hope in life, and death is a cowardly person. How can a pig have such a hatred?"
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