Could people be cloned without conscious brains (so their body parts could be harvested with fewer moral qualms)?
No. For starters, whatever consciousness is, it doesn’t reside in any one brain structure or set of genes that could be easily removed from the clone before or during its development. Moreover, attempting to surgically or genetically erase someone’s “consciousness” is itself morally wrong. It would also be hard to know if your technique worked. A person can look and behave like a mindless vegetable but have a very active mind. For example – the paralyzed French writer, Jean-Dominique Bauby. He dictated a 130 page novel by moving his eyelids.
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