(May 18, 2012 at 10:51 am)Phil Wrote:(May 18, 2012 at 10:46 am)Mosrhun Wrote: I don't know how I could physically define what cognitive thought is. A quick google search yields the following:
"The cerebrum, or forebrain, forms the bulk of the brain. The cerebrum is formed of a large mass of white and gray neural fiber in the upper cranium. It is responsible for the higher thought to process (memory, judgement, reason), processing sensory data, and with initiating willful motor processes, such as voluntary muscle flexion. The cerebrum is composed of two lateral halves, which feature a number of wrinkles, and furrows and which are connected in the middle of the medulla. The cerebrum is descriptively divided into four sections, or lobes, named for the cranial bones, which they are nearest: the frontal lobe, the occipital lobe, the parietal lobe, and the temporal lobe."
You previously stated that he does not have a forebrain, which would mean he lacks those underlined functions.
Since you like wikipedia so much, how about looking up what it says under cognition and then look up what controls bottom up attention. You have no problem defining a person as something with cognitive thought but you can't define cognitive thought? Sorry but that just smells bad.
Lol, Phil it didn't come from wikipedia, but would it really matter if it did? I always find it interesting how people can discredit a Wiki that has links to 50-100 credible sources at the bottom of the page, but I digress.
If you don't know that you're thinking, then what good is what you're thinking? The child is not a person. He is something (human), not someone, (person). That's the bottom line man and I really don't know why it bothers you so much. I've expressed several times that this holds no bearing on how this child should be treated and even expressed my sympathy for this family. As a father of a young boy, I can't even imagine what it must be like.
