If I understand you correctly, you are arguing that the suspended brain is concious (just “paused”, as you say). So there is some property of a system that we can call “concious” even if it’s asleep, suspended, etc., and that embryos (before 20 weeks or so) lack this property.
If this a fair statement, I don’t have anything more to say. The infants, animals etc. stuff is being covered in the “infanticide” sub-thread on this page.
Mostly we’re monkeying with scenarios for the fun of it. I have somewhat less certainty than you about embryonic stem cell research—I estimate some chance that it is morally problematic.
If I understand you correctly, you are arguing that the suspended brain is concious (just “paused”, as you say). So there is some property of a system that we can call “concious” even if it’s asleep, suspended, etc., and that embryos (before 20 weeks or so) lack this property.
If this a fair statement, I don’t have anything more to say. The infants, animals etc. stuff is being covered in the “infanticide” sub-thread on this page.
Mostly we’re monkeying with scenarios for the fun of it. I have somewhat less certainty than you about embryonic stem cell research—I estimate some chance that it is morally problematic.