person A specialization of #$SocialBeing and #$IndividualAgent: the collection of all persons. Personhood is a vague, emotionally loaded yet extremely salient concept with respect to common-sense reasoning. Something is an instance of #$Person if it is an individual #$IntelligentAgent with perceptual sensibility, capable of complex social relationships, and possessing a certain moral sophistication and an intrinsic moral value, or -- if it lacks certain of these characteristics -- is a member of a distinct type of #$SocialBeing (usually a species) which generally possesses such characteristics and is therefore acknowledged by other members of that type as a person within their social systems. Most currently known instances of #$Person are instances of #$HomoSapiens but there is no reason why all need be (consider #$Hobbits in the fictional world of #$LordOfTheRings-Trilogy). They need not even be instances of #$BiologicalLivingObject (consider the possibility of a person-like AI). Also note that #$Person excludes non-human legal persons , who are, however, included in the collection #$LegalAgent. bd588092-9c29-11b1-9dad-c379636f7270