🔐 “I thought it was significant that the Pope’s comments relate to the ontological question of personhood. It is not obvious that consciousness is an especially important category for Christian theology of personhood. After all, angels and ants are both conscious.”
@JonAskonas Everyone is playing very conveniently fast and loose with whether they’re talking about “some kind of complex internal experience” “the full equivalent of a human being” “a soul” “a capacity to think” “an entity of some kind” “a person” &c&c—sometimes right within the same
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substance 6 · opinion · rank 200 · In Christian theology, consciousness is not the decisive category for determining personhood.
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