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Originally posted by Kon-Tiki@Sep 21 2005, 06:15 PM
A baby does cry all the time whenever it needs something. When it's hungry, it'll cry. When it's crapped itself, it'll cry. When it doesn't like a person, it'll cry. When it doesn't like some food, it'll spit it all over you. I'd say it's got quite alot more self-awareness than an embryo.
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A baby starts crying as a response to something only after some two weeks! Before that its crying is nothing more then a reflex - like a sneeze or a cough (those do not prove self awareness). So if you throw a 10 days old baby in a dumpster - you'd throw away a being that's not self aware! So it would be like killing an embrio - if the criterium would be self-awareness.