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To: TigersEye
Give me a break! I’ve spent decades studying science and my first eighteen years living with a physician. Your phony baloney excuses shift from post to post. It’s brain, no it’s nervous system, no it’s awareness, no it’s perception, no it’s cellular function... Nothing more than lib/Progressive talking points with no scientific basis whatsoever.

Typical. You cannot point at any thing I have said that is wrong or even inaccurate, so suddenly, you claim yourself a scientific expert on the basis that one of your parents was a physician? One, there is no way to verify that, and two, learning is not an osmotic process. You do not show any grasp of the scientific process.

Furthermore, I am completely consistent in the facts that I describe. I may have to explain them from different angles, because of your propensity to try to jump all over the place in your game of "gotcha", but that does not equate to inconsistency.

It is very simple, really. A cell is alive as long as chemical reactions continue to occur within it. A single cell can be an entire organism (as with amoeba, paramecium, E. coli, etc.), or a cell can be part of a multicellular organism. In the case of a multicellular organism, the cell may function just like a single-cell organism, with the main difference that it is associated with other cells. In more complex multicellular organisms, cells tend to specialize for various functions, a process called differentiation.

At this point, there is nothing that makes these living organisms aware. They are concentrations of chemical reactions, as unthinking and unaware as any chemical reaction mixture that one mixes in a flask. They are, by definition, alive, but they are utterly unaware. Up until about 3 weeks post-conception, the human zygote/blastocyst/early embryo is no different than any simple multicellular organism. Chemical reactions occur, but it is unaware.

Awareness is seated within the central nervous system. (I think that you know that perfectly well, but are being deliberately obtuse about it for the sake of trollery. You do know what a troll is, don't you?) Through the central nervous system, information is gathered and acted upon. With the presence of a nervous system, no longer is the organism reacting chemically to its environment--it is aware of its environment and willfully modifies its behavior according to information it processes within its brain. Human embryos begin this information processing somewhere between 3 and 5 weeks post-conception. At that point, having become aware and feeling, they should have the same legal protection as any born human being.

Now, troll, let me see how you try to spin this.

150 posted on 03/26/2014 4:01:08 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom
At this point, there is nothing that makes these living organisms aware.

What utter unscientific garbage.

Although we have a variety of instruments that can measure thought processes--

BS. Name one instrument that can do that.

Talk about trolling.

155 posted on 03/26/2014 12:07:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: exDemMom
You cannot point at any thing I have said that is wrong or even inaccurate, ...

Other than post after post after post where I have done that and gone unanswered. Troll.

156 posted on 03/26/2014 12:08:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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