Humanity

[huginnmuninn]

What is it to be a human?

[Iceman]

To be a homosapien.

[Sage]

To be a homosapien.

More or less. Anything else is purely poetic or conceptual.

[skinny_white_boy]

I think people arent fully human without free will.
"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man"

We just talked all about this in Literature when we just finished reading A Clockwork Orange. :)

[Sage]

I think people arent fully human without free will.

Only free will is nothing more than a concept formulated by our brains, and being in the same species, we (in good health) all have that organ.

[Korashk]

I think people arent fully human without free will.
You'd be wrong.

"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man"
"A witty saying proves nothing"

[embers]

There is a difference between humanity and being human. Humanity is the quality of being humane.

[Zazu]

To perceive.

[Donkey]

To perceive.
Nah, humanity in that sense refers to chemistry and biology that keeps humans living, literally feeling and literally seeing. Energy/consciousness =/= humanity. Excuse any oddities in the below post, just had a rather bizarre tooth extraction under the influence of ketamine and continue to recover.

To the question, being a human is fundamentally useless and pointless - we are only brought to think differently by the persuasive and survivalistic mess that are human emotions. Humans are made to breed, to reproduce, to survive and continue living. Your consciousness, your energy, is what is the vitally important aspect of consciousness - it is not how you see things, that you see things, how you interpret things, how you feel about them but it is how you perceive things as from what the chemicals in your brain tell you to. This energy is perhaps not even literal, perhaps infinitely tiny/huge as part of other infinite energy, with infinite amounts of energy inside it.

There is a difference between humanity and being human. Humanity is the quality of being humane.
hu·man·i·ty [hyoo-man-i-tee or, often, yoo-]
–noun, plural -ties.

1.all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
2.the quality or condition of being human; human nature.
3.the quality of being humane; kindness; benevolence.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humanity

Technically, there is no difference in word definition. Otherwise, yes.

I think people arent fully human without free will.
"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man"
What do you consider humanity? Do you consider it to be choice, free will, love, hate and other such humanitarian approaches to fulfillment? Do you consider it the biological aspect of being a member of a particular species? You can be human and lack free will, in fact all of us are. One who lacks free will may merely consider himself less of a human being by default due the mess of human emotions as referred to earlier.

[Korashk]

There is a difference between humanity and being human.
No there isn't.

Humanity (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=humanity):
(n) (the quality of being humane)
(n) (the quality of being human)
(n) (all of the living human inhabitants of the earth)

Humanity is the quality of being humane.
That's one of the definitions, not the one this thread is about.

[embers]

I think people arent fully human without free will.

http://wtfhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/philosoraptor-free-will.png

hu·man·i·ty [hyoo-man-i-tee or, often, yoo-]
–noun, plural -ties.

1.all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
2.the quality or condition of being human; human nature.
3.the quality of being humane; kindness; benevolence.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humanity

Technically, there is no difference in word definition. Otherwise, yes.

Whoops, my bad.

[music is my soul]

thats a question lik wat is love...we all have our different prespectives on it.

[sports fan1]

to be human is to love, to hate,to be caring, to be mean, to give, to take away, and,
to be you in all your imperfections.

[Iceman]

thats a question lik wat is love...we all have our different prespectives on it.

Exactly. That's what makes it interesting.

[Severus Snape]

The ability to evaluate, reason, and die.

Or, on a purely more scientific level, the certain arrangement of nucleic acids in a strand of DNA.