What does it mean to be human?

• Published: 2023-08-03 12:16
• Updated: 2023-08-03 12:16

If I had found a satisfying answer by now, you’d probably read a book instead of my thoughts and observations in this form.

“To err is human.“, it is said.

Maybe we’re simply stuck in a seemingly inevitable loop:

• The-nature-of-paradoxes
• The-thing-about-self-evidence

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• to be irritated
• to be sure
• to think too much
• to feel too little
• to talk too much
• to not find suitable words
• to use digital judgement
• to hopefully learn being less like a well functioning computer
• and more human in the end.

To exist on the scales - of understanding to misunderstanding - freedom of judgement and judgement - bliss and pain all at once, at the same time.

Wisdom doesn’t only acknowledge, but embraces the paradox. That freedom of judgement is a form of judgement. That bliss can only exist next to pain. The inevitable misunderstanding within understanding.