"Many contemporary authors prominent in bioethical circles distinguish sharply between being a human being and being a human person . These authors claim that for an entity to be regarded as a person , it must have developed at least incipiently exercisable cognitive capacities or abilities ..... ( Another view } distinguishes between a living human body and a living human person ."
"What Is a Human Person and Who Counts as a Human Person ? : A Crucial Question for Bioethics by Prof. William E. May There is also an extremely academic school of thought which views the human person in terms of the ego in all its derivations . I can not hope to summarize what this is all about , please refer to : Philosophical Critiques : The Human Person - 3 One could also consider the social development of an infant , inasmuch as humans are , in most cases , very social animals . According to primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy , the human species is specifically developed to be part of a social system and a newborn infant comes ready made to push all the buttons of the system :"
"distinguish sharply between being a human being and being a human person"
"What Is a Human Person and Who Counts as a Human Person ? : A Crucial Question for Bioethics by Prof. William E. May There is also an extremely academic school of thought which views the human person in terms of the ego in all its derivations ."