RE: What is a person?
May 13, 2010 at 10:24 am
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2010 at 10:25 am by tackattack.)
(May 13, 2010 at 9:49 am)Saerules Wrote:
well you do have your own intrinsic value inate to yourself. But as I said before, when talking about worth within society or from the extranious perspective, another similar entity would be a necessity/
#1: "A person must have a place on the space time continuum."
^ This one is good.
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Ok we'll reword it then to Must have an intent to it's existence (not necessarily including only conscious intent or precluding a consciousness)
#2: "Must have mannerisms."
^ This one is good. I suppose that without mannerisms, an thing could hardly have a personality, and with no personality: how would a thing be a person? (rhetorical)
go to bed then, lol. There's no time limit to the pursuit of understanding
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Then we'll include being human as part of the definition of being a person
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I think we attribute value to them and thus attempt to give them characteristics we define as part of being a person (like ai's with manerisms and androids shaped like humans, mimmicking human triats) But I don't think it intrinsically make them a person because they don't fit the definition of a person. They can righlty be humanoid.. human like.. but I don't know where this would go if we through clones into the mix.
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