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Re: Personhood

Re: Personhood

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Posted by Joe on September 12, 2000 at 01:59:55:

In Reply to: Personhood posted by isaacthe54 on September 10, 2000 at 05:24:19:

: I've been tossing this idea aroudn for a while, and i was wondering if anyone else had any ideas regarding it. what makes a thing a person? how can we tell if its a person? what does it have to be able to do?
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: it seems an obvious idea that information processing has a lot to do with it.

Just to be the devils advocate, do you consider a person in a coma not to be a person? They are not processing information. Or at least they are not processing it in a more complex matter than the dog you mention later in your post.

Should we ever meet intelligent extra-terrestrials there will be controversy, and I doubt if people will easily agree about the aliens are persons or not regardless of how reasonable or how much like us they process information. Especially if they don’t look like us.

I’m not sure if ‘personhood’, can be defined beyond what Sambersil said below “they look like us and act like us”

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: : I've been tossing this idea aroudn for a while, and i was wondering if anyone else had any ideas regarding it. what makes a thing a person? how can we tell if its a person? what does it have to be able to do? : ... : : it seems an obvious idea that information processing has a lot to do with it. : Just to be the devils advocate, do you consider a person in a coma not to be a person? They are not processing information. Or at least they are not processing it in a more complex matter than the dog you mention later in your post. : Should we ever meet intelligent extra-terrestrials there will be controversy, and I doubt if people will easily agree about the aliens are persons or not regardless of how reasonable or how much like us they process information. Especially if they don’t look like us. : I’m not sure if ‘personhood’, can be defined beyond what Sambersil said below “they look like us and act like us”

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