(May 18, 2012 at 11:12 am)Mosrhun Wrote: I don't really see where you're going with that as he has no ability to reason with what is "attracting his attention in a pre-conscious" way.
Where I am going with this is that by your criteria of cognitive thought defining a person, since Nicholas has attention and that is an aspect of cognitive thought, you can either accept he is a person by your definition or give it another go with a different definition of person.