Sunday Firesides: More Human, More Alive, More Immortal

Human. Alive. Immortal.

We think of these as set, binary states. Things you either are or aren’t.

You’re either human or nonhuman. Dead or alive. Mortal or immortal.

But in truth, these states exist on a continuum, the ends of which you are always moving towards or away from.

If humanness is defined by those traits and behaviors most unique to our species, …