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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@Pikachu Well 'something' can be 'anything' ! It's only a 'person' if it has human DNA.
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I disagree entirely.
I know people often conflate human and person but it seems to me that, that is the result of not having thought it through.
Would an intelligent alien race be a person? If you could digitally map a human's brain onto a computer chip and transfer their mind into a robot body would that be a person?
Don't you think there's more to being a person than just having human genetic material? Like self-awareness, personality, thoughts, feelings, motivations etc?
I disagree entirely.
I know people often conflate human and person but it seems to me that, that is the result of not having thought it through.
Would an intelligent alien race be a person? If you could digitally map a human's brain onto a computer chip and transfer their mind into a robot body would that be a person?
Don't you think there's more to being a person than just having human genetic material? Like self-awareness, personality, thoughts, feelings, motivations etc?
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@Pikachu No. Humans are ultimately defined as a living species. A person is a human. By definition !
Chimpanzee DNA alters from human by less than 1%. But a Chimpanzee will never be human.
Aliens are aliens.
Robots are robots
all animals probably have self-awareness; personality; thoughts; feelings; motivations etc. Unlikely to be uniquely Human trait
Chimpanzee DNA alters from human by less than 1%. But a Chimpanzee will never be human.
Aliens are aliens.
Robots are robots
all animals probably have self-awareness; personality; thoughts; feelings; motivations etc. Unlikely to be uniquely Human trait
@Picklebobble2
[quote]Aliens are aliens...Robots are robots[/quote]
Would Spock be considered a person? He isn't human but he has every single one of the characteristics besides that which would be attributed to a person.
So human brain and all the qualities therein that make that human a person, mapped onto a synthetic brain is no longer a person?
I find that to be absurdly reductive.
"A person is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility."
Does that not sound like a more accurate description of a person than "is a human"?
Name me 5 characteristics of personhood (not counting human).
[quote]Aliens are aliens...Robots are robots[/quote]
Would Spock be considered a person? He isn't human but he has every single one of the characteristics besides that which would be attributed to a person.
So human brain and all the qualities therein that make that human a person, mapped onto a synthetic brain is no longer a person?
I find that to be absurdly reductive.
"A person is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility."
Does that not sound like a more accurate description of a person than "is a human"?
Name me 5 characteristics of personhood (not counting human).