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AMA | June 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Ontology Matters to Discussions of Public Policy

I don't think that emergence is the central issue here, but the nature of what is a living being is absolutely central. I would like those discussions to be at a much higher level, much more sophisticated and much more informed by how ethink about these things at a philosophical, moral, ethical, et cetera level. But there's also the fact that it's not really true that a lot of o opponents of abortion consistently hold this point of view.

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