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    Personhood, as treated in such experiments, would extend ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→No thought experiment that involves non-human animals or computers as persons is well conceived.

    Personhood, as treated in such experiments, would extend beyond the natural-kind category of human beings.

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    We also agree that the inferences drawn in thought experimenting are highly problematic if the hypothetical scenario “is inadequately described” (Wilkes 1988, p. 8). But Wilkes seems to think that the lack of description is unavoidable, which supposedly amounts to a reason against philosophical thought experiments on personal identity because persons are not natural kinds. This makes it impossible to fill in necessary information to make the thought experiment work given its unavoidable underdet

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