We are the only species that can learn to think like another of our own species; the only one that records and remembers its history; the only one that tries to decipher the laws of the universe.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
University of Southern California Commencement 2018, 2018
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At the heart of Mukherjee's speech was a profound observation about what makes humans unique. He had described three forms of listening — empathy (entering another mind), history (understanding the past), and science (deciphering natural laws) — and then stepped back to make a sweeping claim: these three capacities, taken together, define our species. No other animal can truly inhabit the perspective of another member of its own species. No other animal records its history and learns from it. No other animal systematically investigates the laws that govern the universe. These three capacities form what Mukherjee called 'a three-sided portal through which we must all pass' — and passing through it marks the transition from the self-centered world of childhood to the engaged, listening world of adulthood.
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