Neural Organoids: How Should We Handle the Possibility of Sentience? - CORRIGENDUM [0.03%]
神经类器官：我们应如何应对可能存在的感受性？-勘误表
Søren Holm,Jonathan Lewis
Søren Holm
Karim Akerma
Karim Akerma
Pain is often portrayed as the guardian of life. Unpleasant sensations are undisputedly in the service of the self-preservation of living beings. However, it is questionable whether the first sensations in evolution must have been those of ...
No Need to Feel [0.03%]
不必在意
Julio Cabrera
Julio Cabrera
This article presents five arguments against the idea that non-sentience is a sufficient condition for not considering abortion an immoral act: the formal paradox argument, the third-person argument, the abortionist status argument, the imp...
Oscar Horta,Iria Murado-Carballo
Oscar Horta
Initiatives protecting wild animal health, including vaccination campaigns, medical treatments, and parasite control programs, have been implemented for decades. Their goal has been to safeguard human well-being, as well as to further conse...
From Mollusks to Machines: An Ethical Framework Focused on the Urgency of Extreme Suffering [0.03%]
从软体动物到机器：聚焦极端苦难紧迫性的伦理框架
Jonathan Leighton
Jonathan Leighton
Ethical thinking can be pragmatically framed as striving for impact in improving the world, without relying on traditional moral language. Consciousness or sentience is central to anything mattering, but only suffering has an inherent urgen...
David Benatar
David Benatar
In this article, it is argued that in the actual world, even if not in all possible worlds, sentience is both a necessary and sufficient condition for having moral standing. In arguing for this conclusion, the concepts of sentience and mora...
Simon Knutsson
Simon Knutsson
I aim to make progress on the following question: When is it morally wrong to risk harming another being? I will pay special attention to the use of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), but my points are relevant to other situ...
Søren Holm,Jonathan Lewis
Søren Holm
Neural organoids derived from pluripotent stem cells have sparked ethical debate because, it is claimed, they could be sentient, or could develop sentience. We critically assess three routes for defending such a possibility: analogy with kn...
The End of Sentience [0.03%]
意识的终结
Amanda Sukenick
Amanda Sukenick
While David Benatar's 2006 book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence remains the most influential formulation of contemporary academic antinatalism, numerous other iterations, both academic and nonacademic, have emer...
Flourishing Through Suffering: The Limits of Sentience and the Ethics of Communal Meaning-Making [0.03%]
苦中求乐：感知的限度以及共同赋义的伦理学
Thana C de Campos-Rudinsky
Thana C de Campos-Rudinsky
This paper revisits the longstanding debate over the nature of suffering, focusing on the divide between subjective and objective accounts. I defend a Personalist conception of suffering, rooted in an Aristotelian understanding of human flo...