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Fitzjames Wood's avatar

Does an 18 month old baby know it exists?

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

It is my understanding that in some societies, the answer is "no" up to 3 years old.

Just pushing the boundary of the discussion not trying to suggest it as a solution.

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Fitzjames Wood's avatar

When I am asleep I don't know I exist, when not dreaming...what constitutes 'consciousness' here? Unborn fetus's respond to all kinds of stimuli. Some prospective parents sing, talk etc. to the unborn...and there is research to suggest this is advantageous to the development...Science harmonises with the Bible in telling us when human life begins (at conception) but it is a human debate as to who decides and when to decide that that life should be respected.

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Mamaluigi7's avatar

Doesn’t make those societies objectively correct.

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

Who ever said it did?

Your stance is that you know the right answer and refuse to consider other perspectives. How is that helpful?

The Thunderbolts Project (you posted elsewhere) doesn't answer when the "consciousness" manifests itself within the brain ("radio") of the fetus.

Sure, if people want to think about this kind of thing, fine. It might help them decide where they stand on abortion.

I'm in no way denying psychic phenomena. I have an opinion on it, but that in no way can be applied to the question of when a fetus, or for that matter a human being, becomes conscious.

IOW, your point is totally orthogonal to the question.

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Mamaluigi7's avatar

I was just showing you something, I wasn’t trying to talk about the fetus.

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

Then you should have said so.

Posting youTubes without explanation is pretty much a waste of your time. Out of courtesy I went to those videos and found them to be disconnected to the content of Caitlin's article. What was I suppose to "get" out of it.

So now we've both wasted time to no benefit.

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Mamaluigi7's avatar

I was trying to introduce you to the electric universe.

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The Word Herder's avatar

Eighteen-m-o babies do not get aborted, since they're already "out."

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

Says you.

Great job on displaying the arrogance that the extremists apply to the opposite poles of this issue.

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The Word Herder's avatar

Oh, waaah. There are no "opposite poles." There is ONE thing: Women's rights. Just because you don't like it, it doesn't mean you're RIGHT.

When society starts talking about making decisions, on a CONTINUUM, about when men need to have vasectomies, maybe that will wake you up, but I doubt that's gonna happen.

Insulting someone you disagree with doesn't make your case work.

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

There ya go again, proving the definition of idiot.

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The Word Herder's avatar

Well, I can see that trying to talk to little children is futile.

What do little children do when their argument is shite? They insult the other. Buh bye.

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