Hello, Human

Aristotle thought that what made the difference was rationality—that man was the rational animal, and that made him different than all others. In part 1 of a longer inquiry into what's uniquely us, and what isn't, and how all of that might relate to what's going on in contemporary technology circles, we start with the role of virtues and polis, and very soon find our way into Materialism, Turing tests, neo-Kantians, more Harvard research, symbolism versus realism, multiple intelligences, and somebody even mentions (again) the parable of the cave.