A Basic Question

Ted, yes, instinct "hard wires" animals; of course, machines have no choices. Humans, as you observe, on the other hand, have a spectrum of choices. This in fact is what helps to define us as humans. When I first started at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, one of my first professors posed this question: What does it mean to be human? He hit the nail on its head good and hard. In fact, what we term the humanities deals exactly with this question. We do too here in our work.