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“Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes. The emergence of self-conscious states is not a drastic, extravagant, earth-shaking phenomenon.”
― István Aranyosi, The Peripheral Mind: Philosophy of Mind and the Peripheral Nervous System

tags: abortion, neural-development, neuroethics, neuroscience, self-consciousness

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“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.”
― István Aranyosi, The Peripheral Mind: Philosophy of Mind and the Peripheral Nervous System

tags: brain, nervous-system, neuroscience, pain, phenomenology, philosophy, self, sensory

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