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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: one_less who wrote (21102)7/10/2005 1:48:02 AM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 28931
 
considers humanity to be according to measures of brain function.



You missed much of the discussion. If humanity were just DNA strands then that is where the idea that a detached hair folicle or shaving debris must be a separate human.

If there is anything that truly separates humanity from the animals it is self awareness.

What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason. How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god!



To: one_less who wrote (21102)7/10/2005 11:22:44 AM
From: Solon  Respond to of 28931
 
"I am looking forward to experiencing that level where thoughts start appearing"

So is Ted Williams! He is dead but has living human DNA (like a zygote has), so according to some he is a living human person and citizen with the rights of a zygote...or something like that