Sense8 (TV Series)

What Is Human? (2015)

Naveen Andrews: Jonas Maliki

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• Jonas Maliki : What is human? An ability to reason? To imagine? To love or grieve? If so, we are more human than any human ever will be.

• Jonas Maliki : My father told me something that always stayed with me. It's probably what kept me alive. He said that what made us "us" was far less important than what makes them "them". In the end, it doesn't matter who came first. All that matters is the fact that one small chromosomal mutation severed them from their connection to nature, and to each other. That isolation has allowed them to focus on the one thing they do better than any species in history. Killing is easy when you can feel nothing.

• Jonas Maliki : Watch a flock of birds or a shoal of fish move as one and you glimpse where we came from. Ask how aspen trees feel trauma hundreds of miles apart, or how a mushroom can understand the needs of a forest you'd begin to grasp what we are. Our kind has been here since the beginning. In all likelihood, we *were* the beginning. What I want is to make sure we're there at the end.

• Will Gorski : If there's another species of Homo sapien, how can it be a secret?

  Jonas Maliki : Secrets are important to their species. Secrets are the center of their identities, of their societies. Secrets maintain their hierarchies. To reveal this secret, that there is another kind of human, one whose existence threatens the very foundation of their reality... No, they'll never allow that