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The new biotechnological advances are being used by certain contemporary thinkers to advocate not only an improvement of man but the transformation of him into a new post-human being. Such a proposal leads us to reflect again on human singularity and its possible overcoming. They suggest that this is possible in that such a singularity can be supplanted by a new genre of intelligent beings of an artificial nature, and man can first hybridize and subsequently join them in a new genre of "life." In the work we maintain that this approach is based on a conception of dualistic man in which corporeality is a component that has no connection to human singularity. Likewise, it only considers the human cognitive dimension as essential to that singularity. In this way, transhumanist-posthumanist discourses can imagine supposed nonhuman intelligent beings identical to humans and include the latter in them so that they are superintelligent or immortal. Such an approach is unreal and as such false. The living entity condition is essential in the definition of man and allows the human being to possess an activity of his own different from that generated in a machine. Thanks to this, human cognitive-appetitive activity is not circumscribed, but open to the environment, which becomes a world, which is full of meaning and sense. Likewise, the human will aspires to perfect and bring to fullness the very being of man in a singular ethical behaviour. This modifies man in terms of his goodness and leads him to fullness in the interpersonal relationship through a love of friendship that wants the good of the other. In conclusion, these last characteristics of the human will must be considered whenever human singularity and is raised they show in a more explicit way the abyss that separates man from any artificial intelligence, however developed she may be.

This paper analyzes the proposal of Francisco Rodríguez-Valls for the interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy and empirical sciences, as an alternative to the methodological proposals of Galileo and Schelling. Faced with the proposal of the explanation- understanding duality, which removes philosophy from scientific interests, the synoptic or epagogic vision is proposed as a contribution of philosophy to the interdisciplinary dialogue with sciences. All this is exemplified by the synoptic or epagogical understanding of both precocial and altricial birth of the human being.

In this text is described the book by Francisco Rodríguez Valls and an objection is raised: the distinction between nature and person, or between being human and being a person. The gloss of that distinction allows to add some observation about the origins and the singularity of the human being, as they are stated in the book.

The present brief essay is a dialogue with some of the arguments used in the book Origins of Man. The singularity of the human being, of the author Francisco Rodríguez Valls. One has focused on the arguments that analyze the human emotion and rationality. The understanding of emotion and human consciousness can offer contributions to medicine in its mission to save man from the morbid, true meaning of the word health.

The evolutionary process has gone over time from simple to complex. And following the Dynamics of irreversible systems, far from equilibrium. This dynamic is epigenetic, so the process advances towards greater complexity when the information increase. Each man possesses, in addition to the genetic and epigenetic information, relational information. The unique functional structure of his brain underlies the capacity for release of the enclosure in the automatisms of animal life always in the present. 

The article contains a discussion of Francisco Rodríguez Valls' book: Origins of Man. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between man and animal, the concept of human nature, and the role of consciousness in the hominization process.

Origins of man. The singularity of human being by Francisco Rodríguez Valls addresses the difficult issue of anthropology with a very serious use of the available scientific and philosophical resources, and with originality. The current interpretative keys —evolutionism and freedom— treats them with weighting: he accepts them, but with interpretative nuances that move away from the reductionism that is prevalent today.

This paper carefully evaluates the thesis of Origins of man on biological fitness making a comparison with the others of the book Survival and altruism.

In this paper, cordiality is presented as the fundamental component of the origin of the human.

Roger Penrose is, to many people, one of the interdisciplinary think- ers par excellence today. His critic on the strong Artificial Intelligence is one of the most important in the scope of the debate about AI. This text contains one of the most philosophical features of his thought: Platonism. In this paper we will see to what extent Penrose makes a defense of this conception —regarding mathematics— and how to use it in favor of his position in the AI debate.