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The capabilities approach to welfare (with Martha Nussbaum)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Importance of Subjectivity

No one agrees what consciousness means, but biologists say it's a multi-layered thing. What they're looking for is subjectivity - the ability to see the world from your own viewpoint. At the very least, that involves the ability to feel pain. That's not the only thing, obviously, to see red and have it look like red to you. It's just as important, but harder to experiment on.

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