I think first you have to believe there is something about people that goes beyond a physical existence. The ancient Greeks struggled with that and that's where any consideration of Western Philosophy starts. Then you can consider exploring that part of human existence. Exploring the physical nature of human existence is a whole 'nother endeavor. If you conflate the two you get something like 1,196 posts that pretty much end up where they started.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
