Re: Fetal tissue

Reilly Jones (Reilly@compuserve.com)
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:41:07 -0500


Harvey Newstrom wrote 3/4/98:
<Reilly Jones wrote:
> A fetus is fully human in a genetic sense from fertilization.

Two DNA molecules do not a human make. Fingerprints, hair follicles,
drops of blood, pap smears, and the like all have this same DNA. The
definition of a human must come from some other criteria.>

I did not write that.

On your assertion in "Analog vs. Digital AI" post of 3/4/98 that everything
in life is digital, I try to stay out of religious discussions, unless I
can spot some coherency in them.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reilly Jones | Philosophy of Technology:
Reilly@compuserve.com | The rational, moral and political relations
| between 'How we create' and 'Why we create'