Jeff McMahan on Moral Status (originally on Bioethics Bites)
Philosophy Bites
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The Nature of Physical Reality According to Quantum Theory and the Best Contemporary Physics
It took me a more than 500 page book to give the arguments that support my conclusions here. We need to understand when it is we begin to exist and when it is that we cease to exist. I think these questions right really matters because it could be somebody's life depending on it. How do you justify your account which rests so much on this notion of sentience? How do you know you're right?
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