"Now whose complaining about semantics?" the professor remarks dryly.

"Human isn't about physicality or DNA coding or evolution or anything. When I say "human", I mean representative of sympathies, frailties, kindness, compassion, mercy. To be human, in the manner to which I refer, is to feel for others, to have foibles. In my line of work, I deal with tremendously alien intelligence and creatures that could not, nor ever should be, confused for being human. There is nothing in them to understand others, no ounce of compassion for what they perceive as lesser beings or more consideration for them than one gives a speck of sand clinging to the bottom of one's boot. When I remark upon you as being human, outside of me trying to understand the ratio of meat versus machine, I mean something far less tangible. Humanity as a concept of moral guidance cannot be described in the same manner as personhood. Someone who creates artificial life and enslaves it can have personhood, but I would not be so generous as to view them as human. See my point?"