>> To be a human person is to have:

>> * autonomy

>> * internal (mental) [sovereignty]

> I don't think its credible to represent the culture as abandoning 1, at least no more so than our cultures do.

> I think a more reasonable take on the culture is that they try their best to preserve 1 and 2 but they aren't stupid about it. No culture in history has ever had totally inalienable rights of any kind.

No. I recall reading somewhere that, in the Culture novels the Sapir Worf hypothesis was true to start or the AIs re-engineered the people to make it true, and the language of the regular biological citizens is designed to control how they think through its structure.

So they try their best to preserve the illusion of 1 and 2, while doing away with them as much as possible.