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To: muawiyah
The development of the brain has nothing to do with concsciousness

This necessarily implies that consciousness is independent of the brain. Do you believe that?

Thought is a function of the brain and the neurons, ganglia and dendrons that reside there.

If there are no neurons, thought is not possible.

This says nothing about the right to life or when life begins, which is undeniably at conception.

As an addendum, in order to use thoguth, consciousness, as a criteria for whether or not you can kill babies, you would have to have a device capable of measuring same to even begin the discussion.

As an asdie an unborn baby has more neurons than you, I or Hank so if that is the criteria, the three of us have no bag limit and the unborn should be protected.

186 posted on 03/10/2003 9:43:26 AM PST by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
So far we really don't know where the seat of consciousness might be. All we know is that the brain seems to be in contact with it.
189 posted on 03/10/2003 10:04:04 AM PST by muawiyah
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