Titlebook: Adaptation and Autonomy: Adaptive Preferences in Enhancing and Ending Life; Juha Räikkä,Jukka Varelius Conference proceedings 2013 Springe

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Abstractions of Awareness: Aware of What?may come to underestimate the desirability of a high-functioning life. Increases in the availability of life-extending technology may make it difficult to perceive value in the normal experience of aging. However, health opportunities are not the only circumstantial factors that stand to influence o

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00461-7gines them getting older-even though he is American and knows that all human and animal life in the northern hemisphere is almost certainly extinct. As presented in the novel Towers’ actions were clearly the result of self-deception. This is not surprising, for many people deceive themselves in the

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00461-7est prognosis also indicates that his mental abilities will deteriorate significantly and that ultimately he will become incapable of understanding what happens around and to him. Despite his illness, the patient has been eager to live. However, he finds the prospect that he is now faced with devast

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Angela Tarabella,Barbara Burchi such adaptive preferences are not autonomous, and that, therefore, actions on the basis of such preferences are not autonomous either. Through the examination of some accounts of autonomy and adaptive preferences, I show that the claim that adaptive preferences are not autonomous is highly ambiguous.

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Angela Tarabella,Barbara Burchi case, I . to my circumstances; I take a more cautious approach than I might otherwise have. This is true of all forms of life, and plausibly helps to explain the fact that there is, in fact, life at all.

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