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NY Times Suggests Babies Are Not Conscious
NY Times Suggests Babies Are Not Conscious
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
The New York Times has decided the open question in science this week is whether a baby is conscious. Not a cluster of cells. Not a theoretical model. An actual newborn baby.
Carl Zimmer's 5 October piece, "Are Babies Conscious?" (yes that's a real headline) walks readers through a lab test and then informs them that a "squirming, gurgling infant" does not seem conscious, "at least not in the way adults are."
Zimmer's setup is the oddball-sound test. A...
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