Again: if your heart was relatively preserved on autopsy and we had killed you because we had determined your heart was just no good, with this be a vindication for us? false analogy. If, on autopsy, it was found that my heart was terribly scarred, and my liver was totally liquified, the report would indicate that my heart was "relatively preserved" in comparison to my liver.
get the point?
As to the morality of the issue, for me it is simple: No network = no mind = no person home = not murder.
Your casual observer can make many notes, all of them incorrect. There are significant similarities between an electronic data exchange and routing network and the cellular routing network of the brain, the most significant of which is: No routers = no network.
get it?
I hope so, but doubt you will allow yourself to do so.
In any case: good night.
Well, how happy I am you have now collapsed to rhetoric since the logic is over.
If your liver was liquefied, your heart scarred, and we had killed you because we had insisted your heart was no good we would be thoroughly able to justify having killed you. You agree. Splendid. Forgive me but the premise wasn't about the liver. It was about the heart.
Your second statement is merely religious irrationality. YOU BELIEVE a brain is a 100 base T network because it looks like one to you, therefore it absolutely is one and so killing Terri Schiavo is no more than pulling the wall wort from your cisco. Such free association is your prerogative but I wouldn't want you making diagnoses of me. You'd be too liable to skip evidence and cut straight to prophecy.
As for Hammerwhatshisname, if he isn't then he isn't and
I'll happily stand corrected. There is a massive enough
body of affidavits filed by other neurologists to continue
to support the position. I think I did mention the source so
hats off to the fellow who tracked down the source.