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be persons

noun

An individual; usually a human being. from 13th c.

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As noted, the primary objects of loyalty tend to be persons, personal collectivities, or quasi-persons such as organizations or social groups.

Second, these capacities may be possessed by beings who are not biologically human, and such beings would also be persons with dignity whom we are morally obligated to respect.

This may be either because there are (or someday may be) persons who are not human beings or because not all human beings qualify as persons in the relevant restricted sense.

But several justices said it was too much of a leap to go from saying that corporations might be "persons" for some purposes to saying that their "personal privacy" could be invaded.

Some, for example Eric Olson, would argue that psychological continuity is irrelevant to the identity of those things, human beings, who are the only things we know to be persons.

Would artificial intelligences, under certain conditions, actually be persons?

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We are person-centered.

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