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posted 21. October 2002 13:47
The Distinctively Human Self
by E. Stan Lennard, M.D., Sc.D.
ABSTRACT—The highest mental experience is “knowing that one knows,” self awareness or self-consciousness.(3) It is the most fundamental characteristic of the human species(4) and emerges from levels of linguistic communication not shared by non-human animals.(5) Mind and language are more than physical entities. Distinctively human language enables man to bridge the gulf between mind and matter. Human language reflects a preternatural, spiritual component in humans that does not exist in other creatures and lifts them to a unique eminence in the cosmos (6), made in the image of God.
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