idolpro | AlcheME!

AlcheME!

[ You stand in the middle of a mad scientist's laboratory. ]

Soooo that means I'm the only human here?

Naw, W's a human too.

Biggest thing I can think of is ... like, a dragon's way of experiencing the world is totally different from a human's.

Oh yeah? How so?

It's … hard to explain.

Back home, for me … I can sense the magic that weaves everything together. Light, life, creation, space, time, darkness, void, the elements. All that stuff and more, all the time.

Oh. Yeah, that's not really a human thing, huh? Or at least, not in my world.

So like, it's our experiences and way of relating to others that makes us human or not human?

I ... think so? Maybe? It's part of it, at least.

Way of relating to others and the world, maybe...

And yourself, yeah.

Yeah. So a 'human' is less a static state and more a process. Just like 'dragon' or 'bird' aren't static states? So what a human is is... someone experiencing that process...?

Yeah. Yeah, it's like ... a learning curve?

Ain't no getting off the personhood process rollercoaster.

Until you die, but. Y'know.

Yep. So like, a 'human' is someone who is undergoing the process of learning how they relate to the world and others around them as well as understanding how they feel about themself...?

Good summary! I like it.

That sounds better than anything I can think of.

We gotta be philosophical about it because we made this guy just a soul and an attitude, after all.

Yeeeah, something tells me I'm not so great at that kind of thing.

I think famously. Nobody is.

Great. That makes me feel a lot better.

[Hmmm...]

There's probably biological differences, right? Then again, if we say that, we might not be able to get away with saying it's human.