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ccaccus t1_iqrzaaq wrote

Reply to comment by Zaptruder in Utopia”: meaning ‘no place’; from Greek: οὐ (not’) and τόπος (‘place’) by Sphaerocypraea

>whether or not they have social contact

Part of what makes humans human is their mental capacity. I'd argue that a person without sustained social contact would be rather inhuman.

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Zaptruder t1_iqs34mh wrote

There are all forms of outliers among humans, along all sorts of dimensions.

I think we might casually toss around the term inhuman as hyperbole while still recognizing that they're literally still humans.

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iiioiia t1_ir1qtb2 wrote

There are a wide variety of methodologies (and cognitive implementations of those methodologies) for IsHuman().

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