1. Personhood Beyond the West.
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Jecker, Nancy S. and Atuire, Caesar A.
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FEMINISM , *INDIVIDUALITY , *ARTIFICIAL intelligence , *SOCIAL context , *AUTONOMY (Psychology) , *PEOPLE with disabilities , *BIOETHICS , *CONSCIOUSNESS - Abstract
The article presents the discussion on practical fields like bioethics. Topics include addressing cutting-edge challenges like human-brain organoids, artificial intelligence (AI), and interspecies chimeras; and concern arises specifically when individuals lack intellectual capacities that Western views deem necessary for personhood, such as sentience, consciousness, autonomy, and rationality.
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- 2024
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