To be taken with caution but it is the case that person, personality are etymologically derived from per-sona: the mask worn with a hole at the mouth for the voice to 'come through'. Whether we like it or nor, humanhood includes attributes of things like deceit, delusion, subterfuge, (though obviously we would, on a good day, prefer top deny this); our communicative behaviour is never as transparent or 'innocent' as what I imagine would be that of machines. Certainly primates practice such devious communication ruses, and probably so too do other animals: nevertheless, I think that personhood is more aptly reserved for humans since the complex and myriad complexity of our personae is such as...

To be taken with caution but it is the case that person, personality are etymologically derived from per-sona: the mask worn with a hole at the mouth for the voice to 'come through'. Whether we like it or nor, humanhood includes attributes of things like deceit, delusion, subterfuge, (though obviously we would, on a good day, prefer top deny this); our communicative behaviour is never as transparent or 'innocent' as what I imagine would be that of machines. Certainly primates practice such devious communication ruses, and probably so too do other animals: nevertheless, I think that personhood is more aptly reserved for humans since the complex and myriad complexity of our personae is such as to produce a qualitatively different concept best defined with a limit which includes human in the definition. None of this, of course, detracts from the deep interest a clip like this evokes. Anyway, sometimes I wish that I did not 'deserve' to be human.