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Humanity and Artificial Life
How Short Fiction develops Humanity and Artificial Life.
The book explores the blurred line between human and non-human, particularly through genetically engineered animals like neutroids and cat-Q-5s, questioning what qualifies as a 'person' and the ethics of their treatment.
Where it surfaces
- Conditionally Human
The chapter explores the moral status of intelligent neutroids, with Anne equating them to human children and Norris defending his role by calling them 'only animals.'