Utilitarianism, Conscience and Animals

Utilitarianism, Conscience and Animals

Origin of Natural Intelligence and Conscience in Humans and Animals

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com The principle of maximum energy dissipation allows the matter to organize itself far from equilibrium. The energetic fluxes determine the living matter architecture where the complexity of shape is linked to the high specialization of functions. The driver of the process is the energy and the matter is just the substrate. On this base, the living st...

Origin of Natural Intelligence and Conscience in Humans and Animals

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com The principle of maximum energy dissipation allows the matter to organize itself far from equilibrium. The energetic fluxes determine the living matter architecture where the complexity of shape is linked to the high specialization of functions. The driver of the process is the energy and the matter is just the substrate. On this base, the living st...

Utilitarianism and Personal Identity

Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics

Persons of faith are now seeking religious exemptions from laws concerning sex, reproduction, and marriage on the ground that the law makes the objector complicit in the assertedly sinful conduct of others. We term claims of this kind, which were at issue in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, complicity-based conscience claims. Complicity-based conscience claims differ in form and in social logic f...