Philosophy 2715F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Pupillary Reflex, Ct Scan, Thalamus
22 Mar 2018
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Deliver an anesthetic when we take them into operating room before cutting out their organs: remains contentious, neocortical death, higher brain functions are what makes us persons. Including: consciousness, language, social interaction, ought to consider people who have irreversibly lost consciousness as dead. Multiple: neurological science can explain human behaviour in terms of brain function notion of separate spiritual entity seems irrelevant. It does not matter that a human life is more valuable since we already said the main consideration is that one can do neither good nor harm to an irreversibly comatose being (i. e. it should hold true) He says that this is mostly a "disposal problem: you can stab a corpse but you cannot kill it, for it is already dead whether breathing or not. Life tends to zero as time tends to infinity: residual life, bounded zone of life cessation: upper bound is loss of consciousness, lower bound is loss of.
