Secular Humanism and Humanity: What are they?

[Ignorant]

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OK cool, I was trying to understand what I'm being asked, to further conversation.

"Human" is a naming convention, yes. From a scientific standpoint. So humanity and human nature are relative to that. More informally, people just mean Homo sapiens I'm sure, for all these words.

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But really, "human nature" is nothing special, all animals have some sort of nature. We'll eventually evolve in cyber-monkeys probably, and then it'll be "cyber monkey nature" and so on. We certainly do feel very special as a species and feel the need to display our superiority. Our self awareness often makes us prone to want to bestow ourselves with more than we really are.

So simple answer to the opening question, they're nothing special, and they have nothing to do with humanism.

So when you say "human nature is nothing special", does that also mean that the life of say, an antelope, has just as much value as the life of a human? Or have I misinterpreted that?

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Would you mind elaborating a bit?

I just mean that if we look at the genetic differences, say between human and chimpanzee and then between human and human, or any other species, the factor that contributes most to whatever special honors we give ourselves probably lies in the material responsible for the construction of the human brain. Take that out, and you just have what appears to be a person, but no person is there.

Thanks for that! So, would it be fair to say that the distinctly "human" characteristics are derived from and involve those realities leading to the development, function, and biological behavior of the human brain?