What Does It Mean to Be Human?

And this _is_ a technology policy question - check this out:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/what-does-it-me.html

Superb article at Wired - basically, they got a whole bunch of scientists/anthropologists/other smart people together, and had them comment on it. What's cool - are the people they've got on the panel:

Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence pioneer
Daniel Dennett, cognitive scientist
Renee Reijo Pera, embryologist
Patricia Churchland, neuroethicist (see why I said it's a policy topic?)
Nikolas Rose, sociologist
Ian Tattersall, anthropologist

etc etc.

Don't be lazy - just click on the link.