admin.ox.ac.uk— Oxford researchers have identified the very first neurons in the human cerebral cortex, the part of the brain that sets us apart from all other animals.
Jun 28, 2006View in Crawl 4
I'm sure someone will be asking this, so to quote again from the paper:"We obtained embryos ranging in age from CS12 [31 days] to CS21 [51 days] after legal abortions at the St. Petersburg Centre of Family Planning and Reproduction, following national ethics guidelines in Russia, which accord with the recommendations of the Polkinghorne report"
it's kind of interesting that people are willing to attribute "self-awareness" to an early embryo with only a few differentiated neurons but not to fully developed non-human animals with complex neural organization, but i guess that's a whole separate issue
erllJun 29, 2006
I'm sure someone will be asking this, so to quote again from the paper:"We obtained embryos ranging in age from CS12 [31 days] to CS21 [51 days] after legal abortions at the St. Petersburg Centre of Family Planning and Reproduction, following national ethics guidelines in Russia, which accord with the recommendations of the Polkinghorne report"
sukinoJun 29, 2006
But, is it in the Bible?
projectmayhem83Jun 29, 2006
It's a great discovery, but these neurons do not convey sentience.
flyguy1Jun 30, 2006
it's kind of interesting that people are willing to attribute "self-awareness" to an early embryo with only a few differentiated neurons but not to fully developed non-human animals with complex neural organization, but i guess that's a whole separate issue