A professional surgeon removes the skin from a toy panda meticulously in an operating theatre, situated in a large hospital in Sweden.

Are humans fundamentally different from machines? Can machines ever be humanlike? We all carry within us the potential for both goodness and spite. None of us can be sure how we will act in an exposed position. Does the capacity for care as well as cruelty have a common origin in the human psychological constitution?

If the entire human set of rules and regulations, the layers that have been added since the embryonic stage, are taken away and isolated from the individual and we reach the core, where the original humaneness is, do we find a machine or an animal?