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At what point is a child imbued with consciousness and a will to live? Who should be responsible for that determination?
by jeffdavis 8y ago
At what point is a child imbued with consciousness and a will to live? Who should be responsible for that determination?
- mercutio2 8y agoThe mother.
- jeffdavis 8y agoUntil what age? Birth? 1 year old? 18? 80?
- arkades 8y agoWhile the line drawing fallacy certainly comes into play here, one can with some confidence say that /before a single neuron is formed/ is most certainly a safe spot to point at and say “not yet.”
- jeffdavis 8y agoI didn't quickly find a definitive answer about the time the first neuron forms, but some brief searching around seems to indicate the neurons are already assembling into complex structures before 5 weeks. So it seems like development of the first neuron would be well before that, and not a very practically-useful line. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_human_brain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_human_bra...