> someone is going to try uplifting animals (or raw creation of new beings) and we'll need a rigorous threshold for the properties an intelligence must have for

> someone is going to try uplifting animals (or raw creation of new beings) and we'll need a rigorous threshold for the properties an intelligence must have for personhood The same question can be posed right now for humans that fell below the threshold due to brain damage or other conditions and display less self-awareness than extant, non-uplifted animals. Yet these humans in vegetative state do have personhood rights, they are not the property of someone else, it's illegal to steal their body parts, can't be terminated, etc. whereas the same cannot be said of many animals. We currently don't have a threshold, not even a fuzzy one, it's completely arbitrary and based on being human or not. De-extinction of Neanderthal could also cause the same conundrum.