Which of the Following Most Accurately Illustrates the Idea of a "Marginal

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following most accurately illustrates the idea of a "marginal case"?

• A) A human being with a normally functioning brain and average upbringing.
• B) A nonhuman animal that lacks the rationality we take to be central to human-level moral status.
• C) A nonhuman animal that possesses the rationality we take to be central to human-level moral status.
• D) A nonhuman animal who, under factory-farm conditions, has marginally more pleasures than pain over a lifetime.

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Definitions:

Opponent-process Theory

A psychological and neurological model that explains how humans perceive colors as the brain processes signals from the eyes in an antagonistic manner.

Bipolar Cell

A type of neuron found in the retina that plays a role in the transmission of visual information from photoreceptors to ganglion cells.

Spontaneous Rate

In neuroscience, it refers to the baseline firing rate of a neuron when not being stimulated.

Trichromatic Theory

A theory of color vision stating that the human eye has three types of receptors with differing sensitivities to different light wavelengths.