Such nonhuman entities would seem, per assumptions, to be candidates for full personhood and hence recognition under rights regimes and other legal protections. But their existence would present a challenge to the extension of these regimes and protections that is without precedent. As noted, the umbrella of rights has been spread over previously excluded groups, including women, people of color, and LGBTQ people. These groups all had the advantage of being able to claim (eventual) recognition on the basis of species-resemblance—this despite efforts to deny such resemblance. Nonhuman entities
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