
Episode 18: Sascha Engel on “Breaking the Alphabet”
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What Is It to Be a Human Being?
The guiding question that sort of led us back to the hieroglyphs is what does it mean to be a human being? How do we write humans? In both cases, you have a not necessarily a definition, but a sort of a mandatory shape that whatever you are writing has to take. So in order to be legible, letters have to have a certain type of shape,. But conversely, this tree is the same tree as that tree, and this human being, it has to be recognizably the same human being as that other human being. That's just one of the many dimensions. And I think that the same applies to human beings, and I think that at
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