John Stewart Bridges Not Walls Essay

Skim and Share One: Communicating and Interpersonal Communicating

Towards the end of chapter two of Bridges Not Walls by John Stewart, in the subsection, “Features of the Personal,” the author elaborated on what makes up a person. Stewart writes that in order for people to communicate interpersonally, they must use the five qualities or characteristics that distinguish people (Stewart, 36). In order to better understand the five qualities, uniqueness, measurability, responsiveness, reflectiveness, and addressability, I had to think back to times when I used these qualities in my own interpersonal communication. Throughout the rest of this Skim and Share, I will go into more detail on how I have used these qualities in my communication.

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I remember one of them telling me about an instance where the brothers had a physical altercation after another guy, living in their dorm, came in their room when they had company. Both brothers did not like this individual, however, their response to him being present were very different. One brother acknowledged him and allowed him to engage in their conversation. The other brother ignored him and showed signs of his discomfort and anger. After everyone the left, the brother who was visibly upset took his anger out on his brother. He yelled and even hit him because he had allowed an individual they both disliked into their room. There are plenty more situations where these brothers responded to the same thing in different ways. This shows me that even identical twins can show different levels of responsiveness.

In my class, human concepts in science and technology, one of the main things we are discussing is this idea of transhumanism. Transhumanist believe science and technology is moving us towards evolving into our next human form. They believe the next era of the human species will be immoral. When reading about how humans are reflective, I immediately thought about the topic of transhumanism. For people to reflect on where we came from a species and to predict where we are going, shows that we are tremendously different from any other species of animals on the