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"Humans seek to understand and influence the environment around them by trying to explain and manipulate natural phenomena through philosophy, art, science, mythology, and religion. This natural curiosity has led to the development of advanced tools and skills. Although humans are not the only species to use tools, they are unique in building fires, cooking their food, and clothing themselves; as well as using other advanced technologies. Humans pass down their skills and knowledge to the next generations and so are regarded as dependent upon culture." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_being
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FORA.tv - Antonio Damasio: This Time With FeelingGet Flash Info Bio Full Program Highlights Transcript Download More 03 min 22 sec 05 min 08 sec 02 min 23 sec 01 hr 05 min 35 sec 3 Comments the poewr of fait is more powerfol wen then thers more tan one to use the fait of the true god to ...
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Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ MagazineWhen surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, what biological systems have fine-tuned for eons, from nanobots ...
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What is Wisdom? What one generation can pass to another - Famous people's answers... (Video)Andrew Zuckerman new book and project. Inspired by idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can pass to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, the Wisdom project seeks to create a record of a multicultural group of people who have all made their mark on the world. ...
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Our Kinder, Gentler Ancestors. Ardi casts doubt on idea of a human killer instinct By Frans de Waal | WSJ.comAre humans hard-wired to be ruthlessly competitive or supportive of one another? The behavior of our ape relatives, known as peaceful vegetarians, once bolstered the view that our actions could not be traced to an impulse to dominate. But in the late 1970s, when chimpanzees were discovered to ...
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