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This link indicates (near the top of the page) that single-celled animals have a consciousness....
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Not any consciousness we'd recognize as human.
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Furthermore, the baby's brain waves can be detected at 6 weeks, while viability is typically 22 to 24 weeks.
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Brain waves just mean there is electrical activity. Best I can tell, the six-week figure is a *very* old pro-life canard:
http://eileen.250x.com/Main/Einstein/Brain_Waves.htm
Functional maturity of the cerebral cortex is suggested by fetal and neonatal electroencephalographic patterns...First, intermittent electroencephalograpic bursts in both cerebral hemispheres are first seen at 20 weeks gestation; they become sustained at 22 weeks and bilaterally synchronous at 26 to 27 weeks. |
That is a pro-choice site. In searching the web, I can't find a site that isn't pro-choice or pro-life that offers any information on the subject. If a zygote has a consciousness (if a single-celled animal can so can a zygote) and it is a human zygote, what consciousness would it have other than human consciousness?