Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-09-27]: A biotech company in the US has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous system can be brought back to life. [1] We do now know what life is, we do not know what death is and yet we will soon be proclaiming ourselves gods resurrecting people. We want to do everything and at some point we believe we will actually succeed. However we thought Jesus Christ was too much for us. Arrogant scientists have been cut-off from philosophy. And they show it with every opportunity...
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