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And finally, Hal, that's one of the most poetic takedowns of the "humunculus" fallacy I've ever read.
Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy Hal Duncan 2009
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This is essentially a view under which a person is a humunculus in the brain; the humunculus is the person, and because of this, when the humunculus goes away, the person goes away.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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I think this is required if the higher-brain death position is to avoid becoming a humunculus theory, in which the person is just part of an organism and never the organism itself.
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This is essentially a view under which a person is a humunculus in the brain; the humunculus is the person, and because of this, when the humunculus goes away, the person goes away.
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We should have the chance to drag this festering humunculus out into the electronic public square and stone him!
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We should have the chance to drag this festering humunculus out into the electronic public square and stone him!
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