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Mixing Memory: Higher Brain Death and Personhood

On a view such as the one you give it looks to me like the extensions of 'human person' and 'human organism' (or 'human animal', as I tend to put it) will always differ; 'human person' will never refer to an animal organism: Human persons will always be distinct from human animals in the way that parts ..... The only thing I would add to Chris's naturalist and materialist definition of personhood is that what he is calling the history must be active for a body to be a person.