• 100% agree.

B) “We know that seeing is much more immature in babies than hearing, for example. Furthermore, this work suggests that, at any point in time, infants are aware of fewer items than adults, and can take longer to grasp what’s in front of them, but they can easily process more diverse information, such as sounds from other languages, than their older selves.”

• This also does not surprise me.

C) And it will not surprise me if science discovers that the timeline for the development of those attributes – and others – occurs earlier & earlier in the pregnancy.

• There is still so much more to learn, and science – discovery – will continue to influence what people think about Abortion.

• Which is why in the future people will probably talk about Abortion in the same way that they talk about Slavery today: How could they do that, How could they not understand, How could they believe, etc.

Thank you for sharing.

TBH, here, however, even Neo’s own observations are blatantly subjective and strongly emotional. Humans are not great at making rational analysis in situations in which they have strong emotions.

Not saying she is in any way wrong. Just noting that it’s not necessarily reliable, even though in many many cases, I would take her own serious position as more reliable than that of many others.

However — this study is, if accurate, an actual objective measure of such, which can and should, if accurate, constrain the point at which something like abortion can even be considered. It provides an actual objective basis for making laws.

And that should be how laws are made.

Wow, a Carmelite. Would she be cloistered?

(They prefer them. If you give them a pacifier, they will suck or not depending on which brings the familiar recording.)

My sister went to one of those trendy rebirthing workshops in the 70s. As she was guided into re-experiencing her birth, she had a a terrible feeling of choking.

Later she asked our mother about her birth. Mom said, “I thought you were going to die.” Her birth had been one of those messy ones where the umbilical cord gets wrapped around the baby’s throat.

Don’t know.

I wonder whether the problem with our earliest memories is one of retrieval, not our consciousness at the time.

I was in the room when my daughter was born and when the nurse handed her to me, she was certainly less than an hour old. I too was stunned at the awareness I perceived there and I don’t care what the experts say, I know what I saw in her eyes. Perfect awareness, no thoughts, just ‘being there’.

I suspect they ‘tune into’ our thinking and they begin to adapt.

“There are more things in heaven and Earth Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”

The love for our children is very deep and lasting. That such love can exist in a world that seems bent on settling our differences with violence is a wonder. Ah, that we could love our fellow humans at least a tiny bit like we love our children.