Baby born with anencephaly to please jesus?

[Anomalocaris]

Where did you show me to be wrong. Honestly? You kept saying I was wrong, but not pointing out what you thought was wrong. You said I didn't read my post about brain stem function. I explained to you that my reasoning was based on what they brain stem was capable of without the rest of the fucking brain. You really are a piece of work sometimes, Phil.

You forget awfully quickly. You said just missing a forebrain would be like he was lobotomized since the cerebrum is missing also. The cerebrum is part of the forebrain so you were wrong about that. You were also wrong about your claim to know the brain's anatomy (since you didn't know the cerebrum is a part of the forebrain). You were wrong about him being unconscious and the link you provided from the CDC even uses the word USUALLY not it is against the rules of how the cerebrum operates. You were wrong thinking that the wiki link you provided agrees with you when it plainly says awareness (bottom-up) is controlled by the brainstem. You really should quit before you make even more wrong claims.

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Is any baby a few days out of womb capable of abstract thought?

But the point is there is no possibility of these babies ever acquiring the ability to respond in anything more than simply reflexive way. Being able to respond in a more sophisticated way then simple reflex is the basic component from a which a functional human being able to formulate and excerpt a will is made.

Without it, there is no human in the societal sense. There is only something no better than a Christian.

Someone in a coma isn't human?

Someone in a persistent vegetative state resulting from evident excessive brain tissue destruction, and thus manifestly lacking the mechanism to even theoretically regain faculty for more than reflexive action, is considered human only out of courtesy to the relatives.