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Old Aug 9th, 2005, 10:43 AM       
No. It is dangerous to attribute 'levels' of cognition to 'levels' of humanity. Not only this brings problems of the type "if someone is really really drunk out of his head, is he 'human' at that period of time?", on the other end this gets drawn into an epistemological debate of who exactly then is 'aware' on all relevant levels, so as to serve as an example of a complete human.

Better then that when all higher-level brain function has stopped, we can discuss if that person is indeed still a person in a legal and ethical sense.
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