>> I think what the author is pointing at (with the wrong end of the stick, admittedly) is that there is nothing magical about human personhood. If so, then th

>> I think what the author is pointing at (with the wrong end of the stick, admittedly) is that there is nothing magical about human personhood. If so, then the author is absolutely, terribly wrong. The human personality, how it develops, why it develops, the mechanisms by which it operates- those are some of the greatest unsolved mysteries, some of the most interesting questions in science. The nature of the world, perhaps, comes first, in the list of scientific questions; then, the nature of ourselves, of humanity. If the authors is saying that there is nothing special about being a person, that's because they, like the rest of us, all, do not understand what it means to be a person. You know, despite being one, and everything.