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JonnieCache
on Oct 4, 2012
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I meant the "essence" of humanity, as in "what separates us from the animals."
That is what it means to be uniquely human: to match patterns, overzealously.
technolem
on Oct 4, 2012
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Most animals are pattern matchers. Overzealous ones at that. Our specialty is abstraction and formal logic.
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That is what it means to be uniquely human: to match patterns, overzealously.