"Personhood is a widely available (in fact, universally available) category, flimsy, subscendent and spectral"
"a spectral category that can apply to all [...] beings" (130)
we can extend personhood to "nonhuman beings, without discriminating between conscious and nonconscious, sentient and nonsentient--or for that matter alive and not-alive" (130)
"It's not that personhood is some special property that we grant to beings under special circumstances, or that it doesn't exist at all except for in the eye of the beholder, or that it's an emergent property of special staes of matter. It's that personhood now means 'You are not a non-person.'"