Models & animals
Do human–animal neural chimeras get moral status?
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A chimera mixes cells of different embryonic origins. The authors posit degrees of moral status from awareness, autonomy, and sociability, so lesser capacities yield partial status rather than zero or full human status.
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Human–animal neural chimeras are given degrees of moral status from awareness, autonomy and sociability rather than all-or-nothing status.
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Do human–animal neural chimeras get moral status?
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Definition?
chimeric. A chimera is “a single organism made up of cells of different embryonic origins” []. In 1969 a malignant human tumor was grafted into a mouse, cr
Parkinson example?
Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive loss of motor coordination and associated dopaminergic neurons in the substa
Key findings
No being automatically has full status without the properties. Partial moral status admits of degrees. Neural chimeras sit on that gradient, which is the assessment framework.
Methodology
They define chimera, note Parkinson’s-style disease models that drive neural chimeras, discuss technical/ethical limits of modelling neurological disease, then argue that beings with enough of the same status-conferring properties have full status, while lesser degrees have partial status proportional to those capacities.
Limitations
This is a status framework, not a new chimera experiment. It does not license or ban a specific protocol.
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