The human test

Devising a test for human is hard. With 8.4 billion near clones spread across the world, some running for crypto currency and others for food, it has been difficult to identify humans from animals and dumb machines. As a tiny bit of RNA feasts on humanity, it is clear that there are few humans left in the world.

As they ventured out of Africa and hugged each other to survive through an extinction event with just a few thousand samples, one would have thought they passed on wisdom. Instead, it appears they passed ignorance and vile. As they kill and pillage for the sake of religion, race and power, across a tiny blue dot, it is clear that the bipedal animal that got down from the trees is waiting for its last breath.

It was never meant to be. Evolution endowed them with an imperfect instrument, able to optimize but without an objective function. Worse, it was prone to materialism without objectivity, “swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.” As religion and power corrupted them, they have been rendered impotent and weak.

Could one devise a test for human? It depends on which human you are talking about? Is it the human who empathize with those in pain and tribulation or the one that proclaims superiority? Is it the human who uses the scientific process to reach a conclusion or just skin color and cosmetics? Is it the human who hates or the ones “who is afraid to care?”

Do we really need a test for human? Are there any left?