"Disputed signs of consciousness seen in babies’ brains.
This reminds me of the attempts by the abortionistas to deny the value of preborns due to their various inabilities: heart beats, brain functions, consciousness, feeling pain, don't look like adults or post-nates, etc. They have no value as humans if they don't have the ability chosen today for describing a "person", as opposed to a human.
The statement made relating "disputed" to "signs of consciousness" and to age in post-natals smacks of overtones of the materialist view of human existence: just more minerals and atoms being still disorganized. As a jogging reminder to me it is apparent that the take-away from this article might well be the presumed right to terminate the post-nate since it is pre-conscious; the only caveat being for how long it is before consciousness is empirically determined. This is not part of the article, of course, nor of the research. It is part of the cutting-edge AtheoLeft, however, and such information might be useful to the advocates of post-natal abortion/killing. There is nothing new here, but it is a reminder of the slope down which eugenics - in this case pre-natal eugenics - slides.
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