Re: Sklansky on Abortion
Kip, I hope you don't mind if I pop in here, I've been probing BTirish in a related area so I'm interested in his comments here. While you're waiting, would you mind commenting on this aspect of your statements-
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Their brain functionality was either identical with their personhood, or completely required for it. Either way, no brain means no person.
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"The mind is what the brain does" is perhaps the simplest way I can express how it appears to me. "Me-ness" is an emergent property of the brain. Running only exists while I'm running and when I'm sitting I'm a sitter not a runner. I'd love to hear your comments, even "that's idiotic because ... " since you seem very able to finish a 'because' statement with some clarity.
I'm not a cartesian or xtrian dualist but I seem to differentiate mind and brain in a stronger sense than you perhaps do ( it's that aspect that I'd like to hear a bit more on) or refer me to a thread you've covered it on
thanks
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