Angles and Demons beside You Humans and Other Beings Chapter Four: Joshua P. Warren writes, With the model I have given you, of a ladder of enlightenment with humans in the middle, let’s now look even deeper at what a human actually is. Suppose I showed you a computer screen displaying a tree, and asked “What do you see?” You might be tempted to tell me you see a tree. However, we both know there is not actually a tree there. All you are looking at is a pattern of information, organized on a machine, projecting photons of light, at various frequencies, at your eyes, perceived as arranged colors. The tree merely exists in your mind. Now I could hit the “print” button and produce a physical representation of this tree, but the tree itself still only exists in your mind. Humans are like this tree. We are patterns of information communicating with each other. If you crack open a skull and cut open a brain looking for the source of the human, you won’t find much. Those