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A blogger yclept Adam Gropnik at The New Yorker has averred, relative to that topic, that "It is conscious, thinking life that counts." It is not the lives of all members of the species radically endowed with the capacity for conscious, thinking life-it is all those actually presently enjoying the conscious life.
Were I he, I should be wary of falling asleep and thereby not counting.
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