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The list below is a dynamically growing (and/or changing) list of characteristics of humans. It is used in a systemic analysis using Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) to identify those characteristics that are considered as the most essential descriptors of what is human. | |||
The project aims to use the results in order to propose research and policies that aim to safeguard the basic human characteristics. | |||
Project Leader: [[Yiannis Laouris]] | |||
# Humans have a highly developed and sizable long-term memory | # Humans have a highly developed and sizable long-term memory | ||
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# Humans are concerned with the inevitability of isolation | # Humans are concerned with the inevitability of isolation | ||
# Humans are concerned with Thanatophobia (the fear of death) | # Humans are concerned with Thanatophobia (the fear of death) | ||
# Humans die (restricted life span) | # Humans eventually die (restricted life span) | ||
# Humans are uniquely adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression the exchange of ideas, and organization | # Humans are uniquely adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression the exchange of ideas, and organization | ||
# Humans create complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks, to nations | # Humans create complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks, to nations | ||