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Answer by user14862 for Do humans have an obligation to ensure that death...

I think one problem I find in your theory is equating life-force and consciousness. We really don't know enough as to the nature of life and its relation with consciousness. A fetus in the womb is...

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Answer by infatuated for Do humans have an obligation to ensure that death...

Your fundamental suppositions such as materialism have been firmly rejected by meta-physicians of Peripatetic-Neoplatonic tradition. That human consciousness is an incorporeal substance has been long...

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Answer by Rex Kerr for Do humans have an obligation to ensure that death...

Let's try this with computers. "When you smash your CPU, maybe it continues to exist as a computational entity." Say what?We don't know very much about the implementation of consciousness, but in all...

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Do humans have an obligation to ensure that death actually occurs when we...

I've been struggling to articulate my question for quite some time so this may or may not be coherent.Philosopher Shelly Kagan, a Yale professor who has an Open Course on 'the philosophy of death',...

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