RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
September 29, 2016 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2016 at 4:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Have you put enough distance between yourself and your previous comments yet, or will 20 questions continue until you think everyone's forgotten?
I've identified a single difference between living people and dead people. -The- difference, in context. Sure, we can make a heart beat and pump blood, we can even make artificial hearts. A person who is brain dead is alive, until we pull the plug, sure. It;s used as an indicator for legal death, though...gets the hospital off the hook for pulling that plug. Again, I think you're discussing legal terms and not biological states. May as well say "we're certainly not bodies because the law says so", and miss the entire discussion. It wouldn't be any more true, but it would be a fair bit less absurd.
I've identified a single difference between living people and dead people. -The- difference, in context. Sure, we can make a heart beat and pump blood, we can even make artificial hearts. A person who is brain dead is alive, until we pull the plug, sure. It;s used as an indicator for legal death, though...gets the hospital off the hook for pulling that plug. Again, I think you're discussing legal terms and not biological states. May as well say "we're certainly not bodies because the law says so", and miss the entire discussion. It wouldn't be any more true, but it would be a fair bit less absurd.
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