{"id":1371,"date":"2010-11-28T23:03:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T05:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"From the earliest record of homo sapiens (\u201cthinking human\u201d), men and women have sought an answer to core questions: What does it mean to be? Why are we different from animals? What does it mean to be made in the \"image of God\"?\r\n\r\nThe 2008 World Science F"},"modified":"2011-08-21T00:12:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T05:12:24","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-human","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/how-do-i-know-who-i-am\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-human\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to be Human?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the earliest record of homo sapiens (\u201cthinking human\u201d), men and women have sought an answer to core questions: What does it mean to be? Why are we different from animals? What does it mean to be made in the &#8220;image of God&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>The 2008 World Science Festival in New York brought together eminent thinkers to grapple with these question, including a sociologist, physicist, anthropologist, biologist, artificial intelligence pioneer, geneticist, and neuroscientist. This is a great example of the idea of Cornerstone&#8211;bringing together different disciplines to examine the many viewpoints of an issue.<\/p>\n<p>Read the synopsis of their conversation or watch the event on video.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2008\/06\/what-does-it-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Does It Mean to Be Human? at WSF 2008<\/a> &#8211; Wired Magazine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/groups\/science\/videos\/4533831<\/p>\n<p><strong>QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which position aligns best with your own way of thinking? Why?<\/li>\n<li>Which position is least aligned with your way of thinking? Why?<\/li>\n<li>What kinds of disciplinary positions are not represented in this panel? And what is it about those ways of thinking that is missing from this conversation?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Join the Conversation<\/h3>\n<p>We welcome comments on this or other related topics on the main Spotlight page.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Return to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/spotlight-schedule\/looking-ahead\/\">Greg Straughn Spotlight page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the earliest record of homo sapiens (\u201cthinking human\u201d), men and women have sought an answer to core questions: What does it mean to be? Why are we different from animals? What does it mean to be made in the &#8220;image of God&#8221;? The 2008 World Science Festival in New York brought together eminent thinkers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2531,"featured_media":0,"parent":85,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T2tB-m7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions\/1722"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}