One parameter is the extrapolation base: Whose volitions are to be included? We might say “everybody,” but this answer spawns a host of further questions. Does the extrapolation base include so-called “marginal persons” such as embryos, fetuses, brain-dead persons, patients with severe dementias or who are in permanent vegetative states? Does each of the hemispheres of a “split-brain” patient get its own weight in the extrapolation and is this weight the same as that of the entire brain of a normal subject? What about people who lived in the past but are now dead? People who will be born in
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Powerful question.wow
