Ok. It finally seems that we were arguing over words only.
What I originally tried to do was exactly to create a utility function but I wrongly connected it to “being a human in x%”. Since there’s one big feature that distinguishes humans from other living things, namely thinking, I tried to connect the case of not-thinking but someday-will-be-thinking-if-we-let-him-grow fetus with not-thinking but someday-maybe-will-be-thinking-if-awakens coma patient and compare the probabilities of both somedays actually happening.
Ok. It finally seems that we were arguing over words only.
What I originally tried to do was exactly to create a utility function but I wrongly connected it to “being a human in x%”. Since there’s one big feature that distinguishes humans from other living things, namely thinking, I tried to connect the case of not-thinking but someday-will-be-thinking-if-we-let-him-grow fetus with not-thinking but someday-maybe-will-be-thinking-if-awakens coma patient and compare the probabilities of both somedays actually happening.
I suppose I simplified the situation too much.