Personhood Quotes

One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wr...

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we ...

He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths ...

But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just...

There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ine...

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures mor...

There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are...

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the sam...

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the sa...

In the absence of any general inference from ‘A is a potential X’ to ‘A has the rights of an X’, we ...

We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if...

There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex c...

...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--i...