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#782 - Highlights from the Whatever Abortion Debate

The Counsel of Trent

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The Importance of a Human Conscious Experience

I reject that comparison that like an animal is more conscious. They're having an animal conscious experience. It doesn't resemble a human conscious experience. I imagine that even their subjective conscious experience can be closer to ours than a lizard or a monkey. So it's doing a lot for both of our arguments. And genetics is our definition of human is a certain genetic code. Of course the human conscious experience is necessarily going to be deployed by a genetic human, right? Right. Humans will have various levels of conscious experience through their lives. We could easily reach that intuition for locked in, for quadriplegics. But most of us would give them medicine and care to help them.

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