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Re:Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body by burkaman on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:37PM (#16925853)
Can you define sentient? In this case I agree that pigs are obviously sentient, but do you think you could write a non-ambiguous easily-applied rule that prohibits experimenting on sentient life?
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Re:Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body by colanderman on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:58PM (#16926075)
Wikipedia has a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience Practically questions like these are decided by case law. (This is not very different than the current arguments over abortion in the US.)
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