07-17-2022, 03:08 PM
(07-17-2022, 12:26 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: This means, that blob of cells or whatever descriptive you desire to call it, KNOWS what to do in order to live.
And now for our favorite word of the month... this makes it an autonomous living being in the early stages of development.
No, it is definitely not autonomous. We can culture an embryo for about two weeks under highly controlled circumstances, but without those controls and much beyond two weeks and it doesn't survive. Because of the requirements necessary for it to survive in that way and the shortened timeframe, calling it autonomous is just highly fallacious.
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