"I am just a human being" is a reaction that everyone hears when making a mistake. Does this mean that it is difficult to identify humans? Or, we tend to make mistakes due to society. In Mexico it is polite to kiss the cheeks and is considered an invasion of personal space in the United States. Personal characteristics constitute society, but all of our species share common features. Human identity is formed through their moral behavior and conscience making their human nature. Human morality and conscience have been managed for centuries, but in today's society, we have a social order.
What does "person" mean? In the world of blade runners, this is about the difference between humans, AI and android replicators. Ordinary people may take completely different actions from Facebook in real life. Or it is unclear which one of Twitter's followers is a person or a robot. What is the difference between true memory and wrong memory? In Blade Runner, you can embed memory, but there are real and virtual ones. Even if one of your memories was "authentic", it may not have been created by you; it may have been changed, or it may have been copied from someone else in some way. Everyday when Facebook and Google recall your date and sent it back to you, what familiar things have happened with Instagram filters and other neural network driven improvements?
What does it mean to be human and why is this important? At the heart of our dilemma is a painful fact that human activities cause many problems. The silver lining here is that if you know what people mean, you can change social norms and collective behavior and become a smart administrator of evolutionary change. Many of the shortcomings in mainstream economic and political thinking come from misleading ideas of what human beings mean.