Thought, or at least sensation, is necessary in the fetus for it to be considered a human being.
Thought, or at least sensation, is necessary in the fetus for it to be considered a human being.
Such thinking, which goes back as far as Aristotle, does not take into consideration the contemporary knowledge that the sequence of primordial centers of organization of the human being goes back continuously to the nucleus of the zygote, long before the brain appears as the final center of organization. See p. 236.
Thought, or at least sensation, is necessary in the fetus for it to be considered a human being.
Such thinking, which goes back as far as Aristotle, does not take into consideration the contemporary knowledge that the sequence of primordial centers of organization of the human being goes back continuously to the nucleus of the zygote, long before the brain appears as the final center of organization. See p. 236.