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Bioethics: Minimum System Requirements to Run Human.exe
February 3, 2011 , Shawn Cornally
After reading Shelley’s Frankenstein, watching Bicentennial Man, and considering Star Trek: TNG’s Data, my students came up with as many different definitions and minimum requirements to be human as there were students.
Here’s a graph of their responses in histogram form. There were 23 student papers, and responses were not limited to any specific number of criteria; hence N being greater than 23.
Histogram of student responses to the prompt "What are the minimum requirements to be human?"
Most frequently cited requirement: Emotions.
Second most frequent requirement: Mortality.
High schoolers think about more than we give them credit for. I’m loving this class.
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A somewhat unrelated question…what program did you use to make this histogram?
@Avery: Apple’s Keynote!
I was pretty shocked when I found out that not many students thought Data and Andrew were human. I like Andrew and Data more than Frankenstein’s monster. It’s probably because we only read a few chapters of Frankenstein. I still think they are all humans though.
@Claudia: I was a little surprised by the anti-machine sentiment too! I thought the extra time we spent on robots would engender some more love for them. It seems that being made of metal is just too “other.”
Somewhere I have read that what some philosophers qualify as a “characteristically human” trait is when we stop ourselves from our primitive desires. The person had a name for this, something like second-order desires.
For example, if you are thirsty and want a beer, that’s a first-order (primitive) desire. But, if you reject that desire because you take a look at your beer gut and decide that you want to be beautiful, that’s a second-order desire (a desire that makes you re-think other desires).
Another example: when your morality stops you from cheating on your spouse. That desire to be a good person trumps your primitive desire for sex. Or when your desire to do well on the test trumps your desire to take a nap while studying. etc.
@Mimi: Ooooh, that’s neat. I will run that by my students today!
I’ve clearly been watching too much BSG while on mat leave because the first thing I thought after I read this was “I wonder what Shawn’s kids would make of the cylons?”
Me, too. They had very little love for Andrew the android and Data. I bet they’d have a hard time with the cylons.