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Protecting Children or Policing Gender?
Laws on genital mutilation, gender affirmation and cosmetic genital surgery are at odds. The key criteria should be medical necessity and consent. By Brian D. Earp (@briandavidearp) ———————- In Ohio,...
View ArticleBrain Cells, Slime Mould, and Sentience Semantics
Recent media reports have highlighted a study suggesting that so-called “lab grown brain cells” can “play the video game ‘Pong’”. Whilst the researchers have described the system as ‘sentient’, others...
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Nudges and Incomplete Preferences
Written by Sarah Raskoff (Post is based on my recently published paper in Bioethics) Nudges are small changes in the presentation of options that make a predictable impact on people’s decisions....
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The Non-Rationality of Radical Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
Written by David Lyreskog The human enhancement debate has over the last few decades been concerned with ethical issues in methods for improving the physical, cognitive, or emotive states of...
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There Is No Such Thing As A Purely Logical Argument
Written By Mette Leonard Høeg This blogpost is a prepublication draft of an article forthcoming in THINK. Etching by J.F.P. Peyron, ca. 1773 It is well-known that rational insight and understanding of...
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Abortion in Wonderland
By Charles Foster Image: Heidi Crowter: Copyright Don’t Screen Us Out Scene: A pub in central London John: They did something worthwhile there today, for once, didn’t they? [He motions towards the...
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Mummification and Moral Blindness
By Charles Foster Image: The Great Sphinx and Pyramids of Gizeh (Giza), 17 July 1839, by David Roberts: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Words are powerful. When a word is outlawed, the prohibition...
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How Brain-to-Brain Interfaces Will Make Things Difficult for Us
Written by David Lyreskog ‘Hivemind Brain-Computer Interfaces’, as imagined by the AI art generator Midjourney A growing number of technologies are currently being developed to improve and distribute...
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Finding Meaning in the Age of Neurocentrism – and in a Transhuman Future
Written by Mette Leonard Høeg Through the ordinary state of being, we’re already creators in the most profound way, creating our experience of reality and composing the world we perceive. Rick...
View ArticleBanning Cigarettes, Paternalism, Liberty and Harm: Clearing the Smoke
Media headlines in the UK are widely reporting Rishi Sunak’s announcement of a proposal to ban smoking for younger generations. Under the proposal, the legal age of smoking would increase by one year...
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