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[–]DogeWalker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Hypothetically, let's say I lost an eyeball in a tragic basketweaving accident.

Doctors offer to create a replacement eyeball for me, using soft tissue from my forearm.

My replacement eyeball is literally an eyeball. Do you agree, OP?

[–]GarageCar[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's a very good analogy walker, this is where my issue begins, if you lost your eye in a tragic accident, and the doctors took the tissue from your forearm and made a neoeye that looks exactly like an eye, can not see things but has nerves enough you can feel things with it, how is the neoeye different from the eye of a completely blind human who just can't see anything with it and what makes the neoeye not an eye? Because the eye of a completely blind human can not see things, but is still an eye, if we pluck that out and put it in a jar, it's still an eye. Why is the neoeye created from the tissue of the forearm, etc any different from the plucked out eye of a blind human that can not function as much as the neoeye can not function?

[–]DogeWalker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My response can be found in the identical thread at s/GCdebatesQT .