What kind of being are you?

Question

For my Philosophy class I have to answer the question, what kind of being am I? So I'm interested in seeing what some of you come up with.

What kind of being are you?

Also, what does it mean to be human?

Answer 1

I am in a living creature. A species of ape known as homo sapien. A biological entity/thought aspect part.

Answer 2

I am a human being.

um hmm, I guess to be human is to have the ablity to think and reason and to be able to make choices and not be like robots. =] Animals act on instinct but we get to choose what we do each day.

Answer 3

I am an empathic being.

My soul can't bare to watch the world suffer.

Answer 4

I see myself as an animal, operating according to what my chemicals tell me to do. And I'm comfortably unaware of how the world really works (there are so many mysteries).

To be human (for most people) is to think that you're somehow "special" and above every other living thing. But we'll die and decompose just like they do, and our lives won't have any more meaning than theirs did.

Answer 5

I'm an animal who's ancestors learned to communicate verbally which caused the loss of most instincive reflex and feremonal exchange.

being human is having a consience of time, remembering what happened good or bad yesterday for the needs of tomorrow, which is the reason for speach. It's all downhill from there...

Answer 6

Human Being.It means, at least to me, to have a soul, a spirit, unlike animals, which don't.Therefore, to be a Human is to have self awareness, the ability to impart knowledge from one generation to the next, and to build upon that knowledge.No other being on this Earth can do so.

Answer 7

I am a human being.

Humans are sentient beings that come from the planet earth.

Answer 8

I believe i'm a human being. A living, breathing thing.