12-29-2018, 02:09 AM
(12-29-2018, 12:19 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: The entire argument against this turned into "how does a baby know what excruciating is," and he debunked that.
No he did not.
He claimed that even something as gentle as a breeze would somehow be "excruciating" if it was the first sensation a baby felt. That just does not make any sense.
Pain can not be felt until the brain is advanced enough to process and register the feeling. Even plants can react to environmental stress, but that does not mean they actually feel pain. Just because "the neural circuitry underlying the most basic response to pain is in place" that does not mean the fetus feels any pain at all. Plants have the circuitry in place to respond to stress (pain) but that does not mean they "feel" anything.
