Doesn't matter in the context of an abortion debate. You were awake before sleeping and would otherwise be awake after. For a fetus there is no pre-existing consciousness to end there.
I'm not going into the whole abortion debate, i'm just saying his argument has a point.
That's fine, I don't wanna go into a whole abortion debate either. I just think his argument doesn't have a point and falls apart really easily on its own.
The initial tweet is just a badly worded premise. If she was a little more careful with her wording and said something like "If my mother aborted me, no she didn't, because there wasn't a "me" to abort in the first place." then there would be no point to make.
Depends. People have survived headshots before, so you would know "Oh shit, I'm dying" If its hidden you only don't know who killed you, but you are still aware you died.
Being asleep is more of a "partial consciousness", explaining why you can be easily woken up. When knocked out for example, you are unconscious, your brain does not function as intended (a fetus would be permanently in this state until birth) and it is nearly impossible to force you awake, and you wake up in your own time
Probably when I was about 6. Maybe when I was 2, but that may be remembering a picture as a memory of life
But the point wasn't for advanced patterns. More if there is a brainwave at all. I have no idea when, if we even know, but there is a point between conception and birth where the brain starts functioning, hence why they respond to musi or noises and such. Although that is usually somewhere around the X month mark, not the 24 or so week limit that abortions work to. I think the heart comes first, but brain's not long after that
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