The greatest human ever....
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A very difficult one but given a choice of one person to represent the species who is the pinnacle of Human evolution?
Il allow a slight deviation if you want to select a mental and physical pinnacle and someone alive or dead too. The must be a proven being however so no Jesus, Muhammad etc
But gun to your head given a choice to represent the species in a meeting with an alien race who would you choose?
Stephen hawking, mother Theresa, Ghandi, Jefferson, Edison, etc????
Il allow a slight deviation if you want to select a mental and physical pinnacle and someone alive or dead too. The must be a proven being however so no Jesus, Muhammad etc
But gun to your head given a choice to represent the species in a meeting with an alien race who would you choose?
Stephen hawking, mother Theresa, Ghandi, Jefferson, Edison, etc????
MegaCat said:
Nelson Mandela
That’s a good choice, was he necessarily an intelligent man though? Is there a difference between the greatest human being ever and the human you’d want to represent us in the presence of an alien being? Stephen hawking is a very intelligent man but it may not even matter in the presence of another species if it pales in significance to their intelligence. Do we then want a significantly ‘good’ or ‘whole’ human being to represent us?
briangriffin said:
That’s a good choice, was he necessarily an intelligent man though? Is there a difference between the greatest human being ever and the human you’d want to represent us in the presence of an alien being?
Stephen hawking is a very intelligent man but it may not even matter in the presence of another species if it pales in significance to their intelligence. Do we then want a significantly ‘good’ or ‘whole’ human being to represent us?
After everything he went through and how he managed to keep Black & White South Africans from fighting, he certainly qualifies as intelligent, a great negotiator and very worthy of representing human beings with any alien encounter.Stephen hawking is a very intelligent man but it may not even matter in the presence of another species if it pales in significance to their intelligence. Do we then want a significantly ‘good’ or ‘whole’ human being to represent us?
MegaCat said:
After everything he went through and how he managed to keep Black & White South Africans from fighting, he certainly qualifies as intelligent, a great negotiator and very worthy of representing human beings with any alien encounter.
As long as he didn't try to blow them up first, of course. Kenty said:
Winston Churchill without a shadow of doubt in my mind.
Went on a very important hot streak leadership wise granted - but the greastest ever? Hmmm....I didn't agree with his Greatest Briton accolade really - so greatest human over all?It's actually a pretty bewilldering question. You could make solid arguments for several Roman Emperors, Hannibal, maybe Elizabeth 1, Newton, Nelson maybe Thomas Eddison, maybe Abraham Lincoln.....
I'd need to sit down and have a hard think about my criteria
grumbledoak said:
Isaac Newton
Brilliant expample of how intelligence alone would not be enough in this particular circumstance. Contemporary accounts of Newton paint him as a petty, asocial, cantankerous arse of a man - not someone fit to represent humanity.Einstein on the other hand has the intelligence, but also qualities of humanity, humility and thoughtfulness.
So Einstein for me I think.
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