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by StopDisinfo910 139 days ago
As often, this article mistakes semantic for philosophy.

People can disagree about how to name things all they want. It doesn't change their intrinsic nature. This is all a word soup mumbo-jumbo with no impact on the ontological reality of what we are looking at.

It doesn't matter if you call that consciouness, life or pain if harming it makes you feel bad and if it retaliates.

I don't even care if this neo-vitalism makes sense. The point it's trying to settle is in and of itself inconsequential.