  What is it to be a person? Being a human being (viz., being a member of the species Homo sapiens) is neither necessary nor sufficient for being a person: newborns are human beings but are not yet persons, and members of other advanced, now-extinct hominid species were persons but were not human beings. Rather, DeGrazia says, to be a person is to have the capacity for sufficiently complex forms of consciousness (ibid., 319). More specifically, albeit still vaguely, to be a person is to have “enough” of the following properties to a “high enough” degree: autonomy, rationality, self-awareness, linguistic competence, sociability, moral agency, and intentionality in action (ibid., 320).