MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Adult consciousness may be present in infants' minds, study says
By artappraiser on Mon, 04/22/2013 - 10:32pm |French neuroscientists say babies at age 5 months have the ability to perceive objects in adult-like ways, even though they cannot tell us
By Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times, April 19, 2013
[.....] What do those little people know, and when do they know it?
A team of French neuroscientists who compared brain waves of adults and babies has come up with a tentative answer: At 5 months, infants appear to have the internal architecture in place to perceive objects in adult-like ways, even though they can't tell us.
"I think we have a pretty nice answer," said Sid Kouider of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, whose findings were published Friday in the journal Science. "Babies as early as 5 months, and probably earlier, are displaying the same neural aspects of consciousness as adults."
The findings hint at an early shift from a largely passive biological process shared with other animals to the uniquely human ability to ponder ourselves and our surroundings in complex and abstract ways.[.....]
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I know this comment is really going to piss you off, artappraiser, but doesn't that have a good deal of impact on the abortion debate?
by Orion on Mon, 04/22/2013 - 11:36pm
Huh? Since I don't know many abortions taking place at 5 months postpartum, and the study could support arguments that fetuses have not reached full human potential, I guess one could say it's gives a point to the side of pro-choice. Which I happen to be on the side of, too. So no, the thought doesn't piss me off. On the other hand, I think I'd caution pro-choice people not to risk using it. Nobody likes puppy killers much, and puppies aren't fully developed dogs. More seriously, I really don't see this solving either side's "issues."
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/22/2013 - 11:50pm
When I first read this, the first thing I thought is that it might mean development as a whole occurs much earlier than we thought. That would hand one to the pro-lifers, yes?
by Orion on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 1:47am
We must have read different articles. They're saying adult consciousness traits start earlier than they thought with babies but that is predicated on a strong belief that they do not have those traits before that, which not only means before birth but for several months after birth.
That basically says that before this "early shift" happens, babies have little difference from animals. I think PETA might find more useful arguments here than anti-abortion folks. I.E., the youngest infants and animals are very alike, why do we protect the lives of them and not the others?
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 3:31pm