token-black-dude t1_j5q7eh4 wrote on January 24, 2023 at 8:19 PM

Reply to comment by Kenny--Blankenship in On Whether “Personhood” is a Normative or Descriptive Concept by ADefiniteDescription

Yeah, there are a ton of people that argue that this random trait is somehow significant, and this is always taken as a given, and noone seems to be able to argue coherently, why that would be the case.

JonBonFucki t1_j5t26cs wrote on January 25, 2023 at 10:54 AM

it's a question of personhood outside of humanity. Can AI be sentient? Can animals evolve enough on this planet that they become sentient? What about aliens from other planets? Sure, if we are seeing them they built spaceships and came here but are they persons? Are they sentient? What does it even mean to be a person? Those are questions important to philosophy and they can be examined looking at animals on this planet here and now as well as these pie in the sky conceptual situations.