Reply to post: Re: Get a grip

Boffins raise five-week-old fetal human brain in the lab for experimentation

smartypants

Re: Get a grip

"I hope you're not implying that suffering that you can't remember doesn't matter."

No I'm not. What I'm saying is that there is no 'person' locked up in this tissue because what makes a person is *nurture*.

Imagine for a moment you are a 10 week old foetus. What's that experience like?

If it were the case that foetuses were upset at having almost no sensory input for their entire lives save for odd muffled sounds and the feeling of being knocked around when mum is doing her prenatal pilates, then we would all be born psychotics. Who here can survive sensory deprivation on that scale for a month, let alone your entire life up to 9 months?

The screaming that a baby does when born is not a result of the relief of 9 months of sensory-deprivation. Quite the opposite. Applying our experience of ourselves as developed humans to a tiny piece of gristle that the potential to be a part of a human is frankly nuts.

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