Have you considered just being much richer?

Well, I live in Atlanta, so it's no big deal for me to get there. And I rarely go to conferences anyway, since I tend to find them to be not worth the money and effort, for many reasons.

In sum, person = a type of conscious being.

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13. If "person = human being," then people would be OK taking a nap and never waking up, if their bodies stayed alive.
14. They are not OK with that: their existence as persons would end, they tend to think.

15. So it's false that "person = human being."

10. If "person = human being" is explanatory, then human beings are persons because they are human beings.

11. But human beings are not persons because they are human beings: that's uninformative: it doesn't say what makes human beings persons.

12. So, "person = human being" is not explanatory.

7. If X is a person only if X is biologically human, then divine, extra-terrestrial, non-human, and/or AI persons are impossible.

8. They are not.

9. So it's false that X is a person only if X is human.

4. If person = anything biologically human, then human cells and toes, etc. are persons.

5. They are not.

6. So it's false that person ≠ anything human.