monkey-in-mirror Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date November 3, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , animals, bioethicists, brains, doctors, experts, human life, humans, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, organoids, philosophers, rats, Research, speciesism, unborn humans We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals” Wesley J. Smith November 3, 2024 Bioethics, Medicine 7 Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Read More ›
birth Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date October 20, 2023 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , abortion, baby, birth, children, Christof Koch, consciousness, dreaming, fetuses, hard problem of consciousness, Integrated information theory, neuroscience, newborn, pregnancy, Robert Wright, synaptic connections, Thomas Nagel, Trinity College Dublin, unborn humans Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth Denyse O’Leary October 20, 2023 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 4 Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›