Everyone here has always been unique. They tend to be heart felt people, which you can tell because their opinions often match their names. For instance, Jear sounds like jeer and often is a cynic. Or weenis sounds like penis, and often acts like a dick.
But, are people unique. Do we have something more then what insects or machines have that give us a special something. Do we deserve more then insects or machines? Truly?
This may sound like a simple question on the surface, but consider, we are but as beasts. And beasts are like a clock or a symphony. We can be beautiful to watch and behold, but we are simply things which “do”.
Descartes said, “we think, therefore we are”? No. Computers “think”. Computers, at this stage, are no different then stones.
We might argue we have value because we show love to others, but we do so as we are social beings, like ants. These positive feelings enable us all to collectively work together to help our own self.
Still, I believe that because “we love, we are”, that is “because I love, I am”. I exist because I love, not because I think.
That is what makes us children of God and above the plants. (And animals incapable of love).
© 2026 – SoulSequel
4 responses to “Is there a soul, or are insects and computers equal to humans?”
I think insects are more equal to us than computers. Insects are awesome.
@Gina I am the main cuckaroacha.
The wisdom traditions of our species have always held that there is both a “matter” and a “spirit” aspect to humanity: a component seen and measured and a component that cannot be.
The rest of the animals seem to be mostly limited to reacting according to feeling and instinct — even if it’s self-destructive. Humans can fall into this (ie, mental illness, voluntarily sliding back down the evolutionary scale); but there is something else to us that makes us the equal (perhaps the superior?) of any task as we draw on this unmeasured unmeasurable aspect of our heritage. History, fiction, mythology and the news are full of stories about “heros” who somehow tapped into this and triumphed in a way that “matter alone” could not explain.
Computers calculate. The better of them mimic and copy; and do it at speeds that make us think they are thinking. But they have a long way to go before they can match human creativity, aesthetics, and manipulate abstractions as quickly, effectively and “automatically” as we do.
Hell, we’re not even sure how we do it! So how can we program it into a dead machine?
@griz I am dealing with computer systems far and near…
I am biology.
Biology always came first and created machines…
Time machines, I shall mention here.
Who are you, Griz?
Who am I?
We can talk.