(June 30, 2022 at 3:17 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(June 30, 2022 at 2:48 pm)Angrboda Wrote: They have the potential to become something. Arguing that simply because something has a potential to become something that they should be treated as the completed thing is no less devoid of facts.
Hmm when a ball is resting on a table, we call that potential energy, right? But once it falls, that potential is transformed into actual movement. Likewise, we can say that sperm has reproductive potential (as an incomplete gamete) but conception is the tipping point at which that potential is transformed into the actual development of a new organism.
To be clear, when I use the phrase developing organism, I don't mean that the end result of that development is the organism. What I mean is that the organism itself has begun to pass through its stages of development. So I agree with you, but the potential we should be talking about isn't whether one stage of development can reach another stage, it's whether any of those stages produces the new organism.
Whatever that organism is or is not, it is dependent on its mother for its survival; it is part of her body, and unlike a mechanical dialysis machine, cannot be replaced, transferred, etc.
