Ted, > When a baby is born, its biggest talents are it poops, pisses, sucks on its mother's teat and cries......just like puppies. ...
I got to hold my coworker's newborn infant when she was a day old. Slept like a ... well, a baby.
But underneath the eyelids, her eyes were moving around, as if she was dreaming about something. Her mouth was also moving sometimes, as if to cry or say something. But what could a one-day-old baby dream about? It boggled my mind.
You've never seen a dog's eyes move when its sleeping? A dog bark in its sleep? A puppy's legs moving like its chasing something?
I am not sure those are signs of intelligence. I suspect they are more signs of simple awareness.
The bottom line is that she was the most precious thing in the world. More so than a puppy, more so than the most delicate of china. And she was alive, and she was full of life, breathing and resting in my arms.
I am sorry, Ten, but the young of most species are born cute. Its nature's way of insuring the parents will raise the baby, the cub, the puppy, etc.
We adults put a lot of interpretation into the actions and behavior of babies. For years, scientists wondered why babies stared at people who were attractive. It looked as if babies knew who was hot and who was not. They finally realized that babies are attracted to good looking people because they are attracted to the facial symmetry of good looking people. The more symmetry a human face has the better looking the person. But unlike adults, the babies don't know good looking from ugly......they are simply attracted to symmetry.
Now you tell me this isn't a "sentient human being," that there is no semblance of human life in her because she hasn't reached your arbitrary age of three months. The reality is that this is life in its most innocent form.
I was talking about the first three months of the fetus and not a baby that has been out of the womb for three months. |
