[jethropalerobber]

...the neonate baby is the SAME individual that was the zygote back along its lifetime continuum.

i like this philosophical tack, MHGinTN.

but by that thinking, how can you say that you and your parent are not the same individual, when that unbroken continuum connects you?

[MHGinTN]

but by that thinking, how can you say that you and your parent are not the same individual, when that unbroken continuum connects you? posted by jethropalerobber To ask such a question in honesty you must either not understand the difference in organ and organism, or you refuse to acknowledge the individual human being at some point along the continuum as you move back toward the conception of the new organism so that you can make the transition from that individual to the two separate organ sub-units that conceived the new individual. Which is your situation? And may I ask, if to extend your life of wonder you must resort to cannibalism, are you willing?