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- From: smithmc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lost Boy)
- Subject: Re: To Lost Boy...Re The thoughts of a fetus (Lost Boy Responds)
- Message-ID: <By11A8.Fxo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <Nov.19.12.27.06.1992.15494@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:13:19 GMT
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- In article <Nov.19.12.27.06.1992.15494@andromeda.rutgers.edu> hauk@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Keira E. Hauk) writes:
- >I think this is who I'm sending this to... It's in response to your "what
- >really pisses you off about prolifers", or whomever.
- >
- >Did you know that the human fetus can dream? Recent studies have found that
- >the human fetus can actually dream!
- >
- >"Think" about it.
-
- I have three things to ask:
-
- 1) Where is this study from?? I read _Scientific American_ religiously,
- and I also look through _Science News_ for anything politically relevant
- or related to Physics (my field of study). I have'nt seen anythning on this
- in the five years I have done this reading. I am most interested in
- seeing this report.
-
- 2) When do feti start dreaming? I have no objection to your assertion; however
- I would argue that even if we were to use dreaming as an indication of
- humanity (I have no trouble with this assertion at all), this would not
- make the fetus a human being until such a time as dreaming (and thus brain
- activity and thus experiencing) began. I have lots of trouble with the idea
- that a fetus is a human being before this point, however. Thus, even if
- feti dream, a pre-dream-capable fetus is not human.
-
- 3) What makes you think that I haven't thought about this possibility?
-
- Lost Boy
-
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- * Go ahead and quote me, I really don't mind. I kinda like it... *
- * -Karen Uru *
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