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A student answers that humans differ from animals because consciousness and free will let them direct fate and suppress instinct.
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Human difference
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yes. Um, we have consciousness and we have free will, so we can like direct our own fate and we can like support some..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yes. Um, we have consciousness and we have free will, so we can like direct our own fate and we can like support some..."
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Jiang keeps pressing that the real question is not just what makes humans special, but how such specialness could arise if the same universal laws also give rise to us.
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Jiang says the proof that humans have a soul is the Dante line that human life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good.
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Jiang narrows the inquiry by asking what humans possess that God does not, and the first answer offered is mortality.
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Jiang says that what humans possess beyond God includes mortality, death, imperfection, and the capacity for evil.
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A student's incomplete answer suggests that human access to space and time may be part of what lets Dante write what God cannot.
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"Yes. Um, we have consciousness and we have free will, so we can like direct our own fate and we can like support some..."
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"Yes. But, but, but like, I'm asking you how this happened, right? Because law, God creates the laws of the universe, which then gives..."
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"Yeah. But how did you, um, how did your body come into being? Does your body follow the laws of biology? Yes, it does...."
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"Okay. Why are we different from animals and trees? We have a soul. Excuse me? We have a soul. How do we know we..."
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"But I mean, like, why would God do this? What's the point of this? Okay. All right. Let me ask you this question. What..."
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"Mortality. Death. Yes. Imperfection. Imperfection. Yes. Evilness. We can be evil. Yes. Okay. Okay. Let's now step back and think about what's happening, okay?..."
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"We have a concept of space and time. So like..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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