Imagination, emotion (including empathy) and the ability to communicate with one another.
These are the traits that I find "human". But I'm currently thinking of some of the primates that can use sign language to communicate. They meet all of these criteria. Yes, I find they have more "human" traits than many humans.
Great post. It made me think.
Imagination is the ability to take concepts and rearrange them in your head, and to be able to mentally time travel. It won't be long before a computer can do that on its own.
Emotion is the response to a hormonal chemical change in the brain, based on a set of inputs; sounding rather computer like again. The ability to communicate with one another; I think computers can already do this . . .
In just the same way we tend to turn into our parents, because of the huge influence they have other us as children. So too will the computers of tomorrow have human sensibilities.
That's what I try and do, thank you for taking the time to read and comment :-)
Cg