Stanislas Richard (@stanislasrichard): "Wow, a startup is trying to create non-sentient "organ sacks" to grow organs safely and solve the shortage of organs? If it succeeds, the founder would deserve the Nobel Prize, a multi-billion-dollar valuation that will turn them into the first trillionaire in history, an aster…"

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Wow, a startup is trying to create non-sentient "organ sacks" to grow organs safely and solve the shortage of organs?

If it succeeds, the founder would deserve the Nobel Prize, a multi-billion-dollar valuation that will turn them into the first trillionaire in history, an asteroid and an airport named after them, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a trial for canonization.

The deontologists who object to this by using silly “intuitions” as having any sort of moral authority - get out of the way, please.

Diana Fleischman

Apr 1

Creating insentient bodies to harvest for organs is unethical because it violates the “thingness” of a body. I’m hoping Mary never needs an organ.

It refers to the accurate perception that doing this violates a living creature’s formal cause - its eidos, the holistic thingness of it - and re-appropriates the resulting deformed thing for a telos to which it was never directed.

Mary Harrington

Apr 1

7:52 PM

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