NewGuyOnTheBlock
Cult Survivor/Fundamentalist Pentecostal Apostate
Interesting question placed in another thread, and I thought I'd start one.
I would say that anything "sentient" is "person"; so now we define the qualities of what would qualify as "sentient".
For that, I turn to Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek"; where "Sentience" requires at least (3) "soft qualities":
I'd also throw in 2 more, possibly:
I would say that anything "sentient" is "person"; so now we define the qualities of what would qualify as "sentient".
For that, I turn to Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek"; where "Sentience" requires at least (3) "soft qualities":
- Intelligence: the ability to learn, understand, and cope with new situations
- Self-awareness: being conscious of one's existence and actions or aware of one's self and one's ego
- Consciousness
- Self-Sacrifice
I'd also throw in 2 more, possibly:
- Empathy
- Demonstrable quality of abstract thinking
- Intelligence
- Self-awareness
- Consciousness
- Self-Sacrifice
- Empathy
- Abstract thought