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The standard Schelling point for assigning "human rights" is self-awareness. I think Eliezer calls it "internal listener" or something like that. Maybe it is possible to create a subset of your mind without self-awareness, but intelligent enough to answer your emails the same way you would. After all, our "internal listener" is off quite often and we don't appear visibly stupid during these times.
Pretty sure babies aren't self-aware, while chimpanzees are. Yet the majority opinion is that the former has human rights and the latter doesn't.
Right, we extend "human rights" to potentially self-aware humans (sometimes including fetuses) and no-longer-self-aware humans, and generally anything with human DNA which appears human, but that's where the majority gets thinner. In actuality the Schelling point is more like a fading line than a point.